Azure Solution for Departmental Cost Reporting

Consolidated Cost Reporting for Azure App Services and SQL Databases

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You are designing an Azure solution for a company that has four departments. Each department will deploy several Azure app services and Azure SQL databases.

You need to recommend a solution to report the costs for each department to deploy the app services and the databases. The solution must provide a consolidated view for cost reporting that displays cost broken down by department.

Solution: Create a separate resource group for each department. Place the resources for each department in its respective resource group.

Does this meet the goal?

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Instead create a resources group for each resource type. Assign tags to each resource group.

Note: Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different resource groups. This approach is helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-using-tags

Yes, the solution of creating a separate resource group for each department and placing the resources for each department in its respective resource group meets the goal of providing a consolidated view for cost reporting that displays cost broken down by department.

Here's a detailed explanation:

Resource groups in Azure provide a way to organize and manage resources such as app services and SQL databases. By creating a separate resource group for each department, you can isolate the resources for each department and manage them separately.

To report costs for each department, Azure provides a feature called Cost Management and Billing, which allows you to view and manage costs for all your Azure resources in one place. By using this feature, you can create a cost reporting view that displays cost broken down by department.

To do this, you can create a custom cost allocation rule in the Cost Management and Billing feature, which allows you to allocate costs to departments based on tags. By applying tags to the resources in each department's resource group, you can then use the custom cost allocation rule to allocate costs to the respective department.

Overall, by using separate resource groups for each department and applying tags to the resources in each department's resource group, you can easily report costs for each department in a consolidated view.