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Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "how much am I spending", "forecast spending", "optimize costs", "reduce spending", "orphaned resources", "rightsize VMs", "cost spike", "reduce storage costs", "AKS cost". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning, diagnostics, or security audits.

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Summary

Query historical Azure costs, forecast future spending, and identify optimization opportunities across subscriptions and resource groups.

Supports three primary workflows: cost queries with breakdown by service/resource/tag, spending forecasts with configurable time periods, and cost optimization analysis including orphaned resources and VM rightsizing
Integrates with Azure Cost Management API (query and forecast endpoints) and Azure Monitor for utilization metrics; includes MCP tools for documentation lookup, CLI command generation, and Azure Quick Review compliance scanning
Handles subscription, resource group, management group, and billing account scopes; enforces Cost Management Reader role requirement and includes rate-limit handling (4 requests/minute per scope)
Requires actual cost data validation before recommendations; always presents total bill alongside optimization suggestions and includes Azure Portal links for all resources

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---
name: azure-cost
description: "Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: \"Azure costs\", \"Azure bill\", \"cost breakdown\", \"how much am I spending\", \"forecast spending\", \"optimize costs\", \"reduce spending\", \"orphaned resources\", \"rightsize VMs\", \"cost spike\", \"reduce storage costs\", \"AKS cost\". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning, diagnostics, or security audits."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Microsoft
  version: "1.3.1"
---

# Azure Cost Management Skill

Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.

## Routing

| User Intent | Workflow |
|-------------|----------|
| Understand current costs | [Cost Query](cost-query/workflow.md) |
| Reduce costs / find waste | [Cost Optimization](cost-optimization/workflow.md) |
| Project future costs | [Cost Forecast](cost-forecast/workflow.md) |

## Quick Reference

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| **Query API** | `POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01` |
| **Forecast API** | `POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01` |
| **Required Role** | Cost Management Reader + Monitoring Reader + Reader (on target scope) |

## Scope Patterns

- Subscription: `/subscriptions/<id>`
- Resource Group: `/subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<name>`
- Management Group: `/providers/Microsoft.Management/managementGroups/<id>`
- Billing Account: `/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/<id>`

## Service-Specific Optimization

- [Redis](cost-optimization/services/redis/azure-cache-for-redis.md)
- [Storage](cost-optimization/services/storage/azure-storage.md)

## References

- [MCP Tools, Best Practices, Safety](references/tools-and-best-practices.md)
- [SDK: Redis .NET](cost-optimization/sdk/azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet.md)

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