Azure Cost Management Tutorial

In this video, I walk through Azure Cost Management and Billing. I give a tutorial on setting up a budget and spending alerts once certain spending thresholds are reached on a subscription. Next, I review and manage past alerts. After that is a walkthrough analyzing subscription spending trends. Lastly, I give an example of Azure Advisor Recommendations on my subscription.
A list of Azure offers that support Cost Management can be found at:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...

[@mosksky]

Thank you Travis, very informative!

[@s3vR3x]

this is AWESOME! Really helps break things down

[@TheBml104]

Keep it up Travis!

[@emmadkareem5247]

Very good. Thanks.

[@Ciraltos]

Thank you too!

[@mosksky]

Travis, could you please create a video on the reserved, spot instances? How would we manage reserve instances? is it the same per region? Is it possible to scale down from one large reserved instance to a couple small ones?

[@Ciraltos]

Great idea. I think I have mentioned Reserved Instances in tow different videos so far.

[@sarathkumaras]

Is there any way to automate E mail the cost reports ( Weekly & Daily) ?

[@mrprvnm]

what happens, when maximum amount in budget is reached.
do VM turn off automatically or continue to run?

[@Ciraltos]

Good question. There is no option in Azure Cost Management to shut down services. Some services, like Azure SQL, Azure AD DS or Managed Disks cannot be deallocated to save money like VM's can. IT would be possible to create automation to deallocate VM's but that's not native to cost management.

[@saltyvlogs5425]

Hi so in the past I have been billed for the usage of Azure resources that were long since deleted and I was wondering if simply creating a budget would prevent this from happening again?

[@Ciraltos]

I don't think it would prevent that. It would only alert you when the bill hits a certain amount.

[@saltyvlogs5425]

Travis Roberts So what is the best way to ensure that you are only paying for resources that you are actually using? I have tried just deleting my resources and disabling my subscription when I was done with the resources I needed but my account got disabled, apparently for “fraudulent activity” when I did this.

[@ENTV-Channel]

Hi travis. Im now using free trial account for azure. And ıf i look at the cost management, its writing 500 dollars. But u know we had 200 dollar for starting time. And still there are 200 dollars from remaining cost. But its showing 500 dollars cost from cost management. What is that you know? Im not pay to go account? Thanks for everything

[@BACKSPIN9ball]

am the subscription owner and all of a sudden it says that I dodnot have access to view cost management data

[@efexzium]

What’s the point of adding an alert 🚨 if people can hit the server and not buy anything and the costs can sky rocket 🚀 not very user friendly for beginners.