1---
2name: azure-cost
3description: "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."
4license: MIT
5metadata:
6  author: Microsoft
7  version: "0.0.0-placeholder"
8---
9 
10# Azure Cost Management Skill
11 
12Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.
13 
14## Routing
15 
16| User Intent | Workflow |
17|-------------|----------|
18| Understand current costs | [Cost Query](cost-query/workflow.md) |
19| Reduce costs / find waste | [Cost Optimization](cost-optimization/workflow.md) |
20| Project future costs | [Cost Forecast](cost-forecast/workflow.md) |
21 
22## Quick Reference
23 
24| Property | Value |
25|----------|-------|
26| **Query API** | `POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01` |
27| **Forecast API** | `POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01` |
28| **Required Role** | Cost Management Reader + Monitoring Reader + Reader (on target scope) |
29 
30## Scope Patterns
31 
32- Subscription: `/subscriptions/<id>`
33- Resource Group: `/subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<name>`
34- Management Group: `/providers/Microsoft.Management/managementGroups/<id>`
35- Billing Account: `/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/<id>`
36 
37## Service-Specific Optimization
38 
39- [Redis](cost-optimization/services/redis/azure-cache-for-redis.md)
40- [Storage](cost-optimization/services/storage/azure-storage.md)
41 
42## References
43 
44- [MCP Tools, Best Practices, Safety](references/tools-and-best-practices.md)
45- [SDK: Redis .NET](cost-optimization/sdk/azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet.md)
46