Azure Billing features are used to review your invoiced costs and manage access to billing information. In larger organizations, procurement and finance teams usually conduct billing tasks.
Billing is the process of invoicing customers for goods or services and managing the commercial relationship.
Cost Management shows the organizational cost and usage patterns with advanced analytics. Azure Portal let you manage both Billings and cost management for all your accounts.
2. About me
• Udaiappa Ramachandran ( Udai )
• CTO-Akumina, Inc.
• Microsoft Azure MVP
• Cloud Expert
• Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google
• New Hampshire Cloud User Group (http://www.meetup.com/nashuaug )
• https://udai.io
4. Getting started
• Conduct billing administrative tasks such as paying your bill
• Manage billing access to costs
• Download cost and usage data that was used to generate your monthly
invoice
• Proactively apply data analysis to your costs
• Set spending thresholds
• Identify opportunities for workload changes that can optimize your
spending
11. Understanding Cost
• Understanding Offers
• Cost data using Tags
• Data storage and retention
• Rerated
• Cost Rounding (.004+.004=.008 rounted to 0.01)
Billings- process of invoicing customer
Cost Management – Organizational cost and usage pattern using analytical tools
Billings- process of invoicing customer
Cost Management – Organizational cost and usage pattern using analytical tools
Azure monetary commitment or prepayment
Estimated costs for the current month – How much have I incurred so far this month? Will I stay under
my budget?
Investigate anomalies – Do routine checks to make sure that costs stay within a reasonable range of
normal usage. What are the trends? Are there any outliers?
Invoice reconciliation - Is my latest invoiced cost more than the previous month? How did spending habits
change month-over-month?
Internal chargeback - Now that I know how much I'm being charged, how should those charges be broken
down for my organization?