Azure Cost Management
A Microsoft offering that enables tracking of cloud usage and expenditures for Azure and other cloud providers.
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Student Verification
While trying to activate my azure students pack, I was told the email has been used for verification before. But still on my azure dashboard, I don't have access to the students pack. Whenever I clicked on the students plan, it says students verification…
asked 2021-12-04T20:49:17.927+00:00
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Samuel Adesola
96
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commented 2021-12-08T06:53:43.62+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
44,176
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Azure : How to configure one alert for 3 subscription
hello I have 3 subscriptions (Prod, Test, Acp) and I want to put a budget alert on the sum of the 3 subscriptions is it possible ? thank you Stéphane
asked 2021-12-02T11:58:05.137+00:00
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MORIS Stéphane
1
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commented 2021-12-06T20:53:45.507+00:00
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Monalla-MSFT
12,861
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Save money by shutdown Azure VMs for the Reserved 1 year and 3 year costing
When we shutdown Azure VM during non-working hours , we can save some money . Now , for the Azure VM , we have chosen the Reserved Pricing of 1 year or 3 years , then if we shutdown VMs during non-working hours , will we save money ? Please help …
asked 2021-05-04T17:54:54.787+00:00
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MS Techie
2,701
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commented 2021-12-03T22:45:15.4+00:00
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kobulloc-MSFT
26,236
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Show up expecting cost as creating a resource?
Hi Team, Just a dumb question. Why can't we display an approximate quota or expecting cost on the same page when resources are getting created? Then the users could roughly have a vision of the coming bill (e.g. next month) on that resource and then…
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Requesting clarification on Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) pricing
Hello, Could you please help me to understand how SQL Managed Instance cost is calculated ? I see drastic difference in the estimated cost for Standard Tier and Premium Tier compute hardware for General Purpose Service Tier. To my surprise, Premium…
asked 2021-12-01T03:57:28.967+00:00
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anil kumar
1,641
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commented 2021-12-03T03:44:32.847+00:00
Alberto Morillo
33,536
Reputation points MVP
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Many Azure ML subresources do not support tags and tags in cost report
Tags are supported on Azure Machine learning, but the most cost generating part in Azure ML usage is related to sub-resources that do not support tags in cost report as shown here. …
asked 2021-12-02T16:53:16.317+00:00
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MOHAMMED AMINE TOURARI
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answered 2021-12-03T03:04:07.75+00:00
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YutongTie-MSFT
50,791
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Does retail or unit price of azure virtual machines changes on daily basis or weekly basis?
for reference:- "retailPrice": 0.1380, "unitPrice": 0.1380,
asked 2021-11-17T14:45:04.797+00:00
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Konduru Raju
1
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commented 2021-12-01T20:27:42.63+00:00
Monalla-MSFT
12,861
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Free accounts is not activated. How can I do next ?
I sign in new azure account. I borrow new credit card. card is activated before. but I cann't get $200. I want to get $200. How can I do next ?
asked 2021-11-27T08:03:27.397+00:00
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santa-hi@naver.com
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answered 2021-12-01T06:08:40.127+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
44,176
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Unable to understand sudden increase in costs for Azure SQL database
I have an Azure SQL database set up for a website I'm building. The website is not live yet, and I'm the only person using it in test - consequently the database is hardly used at all. The database is also very small (probably less than 100 records…
asked 2021-11-30T00:07:33.527+00:00
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Gary McGill
116
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commented 2021-12-01T04:43:39.587+00:00
anil kumar
1,641
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Users wise cost in theazure cost management
I want to know how to check azure users cost data on day wise in the Azure cost management. Can you please suggest where to get this data?
asked 2021-10-28T14:15:55.433+00:00
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Bhuvaneswari Maddi
1
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commented 2021-11-30T14:28:15.167+00:00
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Venkata satyanarayana Machari veera (CIS)
151
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Sampledata für Cost/Usage
Hey guys, I study information systems @TU Darmstadt. My project management practical training team must program a cost/usage analyzer for azure. Can someone offer some sample .csv data for cost/usage? I get only empty exports / exports with…
asked 2021-11-26T07:48:21.853+00:00
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Nikolai Greßer
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commented 2021-11-30T10:54:04.13+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
44,176
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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VM size cost
Where can I get a VM size cost in Azure Portal? Is there any default price applicable on each VM sizes?
asked 2021-11-29T11:59:47.853+00:00
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Bhuvaneswari Maddi (iCORE-CIS - iCORE-CIS)
41
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answered 2021-11-29T12:54:04.22+00:00
Alan Kinane
16,901
Reputation points MVP
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The "Understand the terms in your Azure usage and charges file" doc seems outdated
Hello. During my work on cost analysis I noticed the exported cost files are not fully compatible with fields presented in https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/understand-usage#list-of-terms-and-descriptions …
asked 2021-11-16T09:55:39.793+00:00
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Lukasz Opasiak
21
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commented 2021-11-26T11:23:06.957+00:00
Lukasz Opasiak
21
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If your pay as you go subscription gets disabled after a period of non payment, do you continue to incur charges?
General question about subscriptions, including pay as you go. Do more charges add up over time after it gets disabled, or does Azure deactivate/disable all the resources/services you used to stop any more charges from adding up?
asked 2021-11-22T08:54:20.693+00:00
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AndreasH
21
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commented 2021-11-25T19:05:21.837+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
44,176
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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CSP Stop me from asking Microsoft Azure Technical Support if I don't pay CSP for higher level service
Hi, all, Since the Azure account is paid by company, it requires official bills, so we cannot use credit card and pay as you go. We use CSP to issue bill. However, whenever we need to ask technical questions, it needs to go through CSP first, and…
asked 2021-11-19T06:23:25.087+00:00
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godel chen
1
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commented 2021-11-25T06:39:47.89+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT
44,176
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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AZURE: We lost our azure global administrator account, now we cannot open a support ticket or see invoices
Hi all, We lost our global administrator account(forget the email, and no one we can turn to in our organization). We are trying to get the invoices in our account, but since we lost the global admin account, this account does not have permission to…
asked 2021-11-25T03:52:31.51+00:00
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Alex Pa
1
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answered 2021-11-25T04:28:21.657+00:00
Aziz Husain
196
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Azure Face API: Transcation per Person Group - Train
I am trying to pricing a project that utilizes the Person Group from the Azure Face API. We got max 10k people in a group, therefore a Person Group is enough for us. We have a requirement that needs to add new people in group from time to time, so…
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Azure student account creation
Hello, how can I create a student account...when my school is not registered with Microsoft...please I really need the student account because my personal credit is not acceptable on the platform. I attended the two session of Microsoft Azure…
asked 2021-11-23T10:23:58.327+00:00
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Ifezue Vivian
1
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answered 2021-11-24T17:10:06.283+00:00
Chalermchai Rodsangiam
1
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Clarifications regarding VM costs on azure
Hi all, Recently I've been assigned to be technical leader of a team that uses for development purposes azure VMS. The team has Enterprise Agreement and for the time being they are using 5VMs. Since I'm quite new to the azure ecosystem and overwhelmed…
asked 2021-11-24T12:23:59.637+00:00
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dk1301
96
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commented 2021-11-24T15:46:38.123+00:00
Alan Kinane
16,901
Reputation points MVP
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Different Azure subscription offer types
Hi I have some issues figuring exactly which type of billing is behind a specific subscription. We have 8 subscriptions, all 8 was created using the EA portal, however one of them are named dev/test, which leads me to believe that it was created as a…
asked 2021-11-02T08:50:58.92+00:00
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Martin Meiner Tästensen
456
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commented 2021-11-24T12:31:56.59+00:00
Martin Meiner Tästensen
456
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