azure-cost

Query historical Azure costs, forecast future spending, and identify optimization opportunities across subscriptions and resource…

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What it does

Subscription: /subscriptions/<id>
Resource Group: /subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<name>
Management Group: /providers/Microsoft.Management/managementGroups/<id>
Billing Account: /providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/<id>
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SDK: Redis .NET

Requirements & configuration

Configuration: POST

Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23

Query historical Azure costs, forecast future spending, and identify optimization opportunities across subscriptions and resource groups.

Source

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills

azure-cost FAQ

What does the azure-cost skill do?

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. Subscription: /subscriptions/<id> Resource Group: /subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<name>

How do I install azure-cost?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-cost --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/microsoft/azure-skills.

Maintain azure-cost?

Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.

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npx agentictools info skills/microsoft-azure-skills-azure-cost

The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.