Azure for startup: how to analyze costs
the customer where I'm working at the moment (and hopefully in the future...), posses an Azure Subscription for Startup. This is the tipical plan which gives you two years of free Azure credit.
I would like to analyze the cost of the Azure Infrastructure (for example: how much credit I consumed last day using the "storage account", or how much for ADB2C). Microsoft gave us a link where we can download an "excel" file which contains a "cost summary". But I didn't have access to such file. It's for "admin" only and is not "user/architect-friendly".
What are the best practice and tools to analyze the Azure Cost? I tried to use the "Cost Management" but, as you can see from the following screenshot, many "buttons" are "greyed out" and there is the following warning:
Cost Management requires access to a supported billing account or subscription. Please select a supported scope or create a new subscription to use Cost Management
Do you know if is possible to let this service "works" with a "free" subscription of azure for startup? Thanks for reading
Looks like Cost Management is not supported for the Azure Credit based Subscription.
Please understand your Offer Type
From portal.azure.com, Select Subscriptions from All Services pan. Click on the Overview. You'll see the Offer and Offer ID
- Based on the Offer ID, please refer that against the supported Offers from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data#supported-microsoft-azure-offers
This will help you to validate whether cost management is supportability for your Subscription