azure cost

Skill

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.

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Azure Cost Management Skill

Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.

Routing

User Intent	Workflow
Understand current costs	Cost Query [blocked]
Reduce costs / find waste	Cost Optimization [blocked]
Project future costs	Cost Forecast [blocked]

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Query API	`POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01`
Forecast API	`POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01`
Required Role	Cost Management Reader + Monitoring Reader + Reader (on target scope)

Scope Patterns

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

Service-Specific Optimization

Redis [blocked]
Storage [blocked]

References

MCP Tools, Best Practices, Safety [blocked]
SDK: Redis .NET [blocked]

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