What is required to use Azure Cost Management?

C

Azure customers with an Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), or Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA) can use Azure Cost

Management.

Cost management is the process of effectively planning and controlling costs involved in your business. Cost management tasks are normally performed by finance, management, and app teams. Azure Cost Management + Billing helps organizations plan with cost in mind. It also helps to analyze costs effectively and take action to optimize cloud spending.

Azure Cost Management is a tool that allows you to monitor, analyze and optimize your Azure spending. It provides cost transparency, cost analysis, and cost optimization recommendations for your Azure resources.

To use Azure Cost Management, you need an Azure subscription. An Azure subscription is a logical container used to provision and manage Azure resources. Azure subscriptions can be set up in various ways such as pay-as-you-go, enterprise agreement, or dev/test subscriptions.

Out of the options provided in the question, the correct answer is D, a pay-as-you-go subscription. This is because Azure Cost Management is available for all Azure customers with a pay-as-you-go or Azure Enterprise subscription.

Option A, a Dev/Test subscription, is not necessarily required to use Azure Cost Management, although it is possible to use it with a Dev/Test subscription.

Option B, Software Assurance, is not required to use Azure Cost Management. Software Assurance is a benefit included with some Microsoft software licenses that provides support and other benefits.

Option C, an Enterprise Agreement, is also not required to use Azure Cost Management. However, customers with an Enterprise Agreement can use Azure Cost Management to monitor and optimize their Azure spending across multiple subscriptions within their agreement.