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name: Azure Cost Management
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description: Azure Cost Management queries historical Azure spending, forecasts future costs, and identifies optimization opportunities to reduce waste. Use it when you need cost breakdowns, budget forecasting, orphaned resource cleanup, or rightsizing recommendations.
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# Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management queries historical Azure spending, forecasts future costs, and identifies optimization opportunities to reduce waste. Use it when you need cost breakdowns, budget forecasting, orphaned resource cleanup, or rightsizing recommendations.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-cost ~/.claude/skills/azure-cost
```

## README

# 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)