Azure Cost Management Skill

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

- Supports three primary workflows: cost queries with breakdown by service/resource/tag, spending forecasts with configurable time periods, and cost optimization analysis including orphaned resources and VM rightsizing

- Integrates with Azure Cost Management API (query and forecast endpoints) and Azure Monitor for utilization metrics; includes MCP tools for documentation lookup, CLI command generation, and Azure Quick Review compliance scanning

- Handles subscription, resource group, management group, and billing account scopes; enforces Cost Management Reader role requirement and includes rate-limit handling (4 requests/minute per scope)

- Requires actual cost data validation before recommendations; always presents total bill alongside optimization suggestions and includes Azure Portal links for all resources

Azure Cost Management Skill

Unified skill for all Azure cost management tasks: querying historical costs, forecasting future spending, and optimizing to reduce waste.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when user wants to:

- Query or analyze Azure costs (how much am I spending, show my bill, cost breakdown)

- Break down costs by service, resource, location, or tag

- Analyze cost trends over time

- Forecast future Azure spending or project end-of-month costs

- Optimize Azure costs, reduce spending, or find savings

- Find orphaned or unused resources

- Rightsize Azure VMs, containers, or services

- Generate cost optimization reports

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