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FinOps & cost control

Make your Azure spend visible, then make it smaller

Cost Analyzer gives finance and engineering one view of Azure cost, with the anomaly alerts and optimization actions to actually bring it down.

27%

average waste removed
in the first quarter

80%

fewer surprise
bill spikes

$290M+

Azure spend managed
on the platform

Capabilities

Inside Cost Analyzer

Explore the core capabilities that make this module
work for your team.

Cost analysis

Slice spend by subscription, resource group, tag, or business application. Showback and chargeback bring accountability to every team.

  • Slice by subscription, resource group, tag, or app
  • Showback and chargeback for every team

Anomaly detection

Machine-learned baselines flag unusual spend the day it happens, with alerts to the people who can act, not a monthly surprise.

  • ML baselines flag unusual spend the day it happens
  • Alerts routed to the owner who can act

Rightsizing & reservations

Concrete recommendations to resize, pause, or commit. Model reservations and savings plans before you buy.

  • Resize, pause, or commit with confidence
  • Model reservations and savings plans before you buy

Budgets & forecasts

Set budgets per team or application and forecast month-end spend so finance is never caught off guard.

  • Set budgets per team or application
  • Forecast month-end spend before the invoice

Scheduled optimization

Automatically pause and resume non-production resources on a schedule, so you stop paying for compute nobody uses overnight or at the weekend.

  • Pause dev and test resources outside working hours
  • Auto-resume on schedule, with no manual steps

AI cost agents

AI agents analyze your Azure resources and explain cost behavior, usage efficiency, and optimization opportunities in plain language, then rank the actions worth taking.

  • Plain-language summaries of cost behavior
  • AI-recommended actions ranked by impact

Who uses it

Who uses Cost Analyzer

From a single team to hundreds of tenants, Turbo360 fits the way
your organization runs Azure.

Enterprises

Govern Azure at scale across hundreds of subscriptions and tenants, with the allocation and accountability large organizations need.

  • Visibility across every subscription and tenant
  • Showback and chargeback by department or business unit
  • Governance and budgets that scale with the estate
  • Help your FinOps team make FinOps a team sport

Small & mid-size businesses

Get a clear view of Azure spend in minutes, then act on the savings that matter, without a dedicated FinOps team.

  • See where your Azure budget goes from day one
  • Quick wins from rightsizing and idle resources
  • Simple budgets and alerts, no FinOps team required

Managed Service Providers

Operate hundreds of customer subscriptions from one console, with the monitoring and optimization you can deliver as a service.

  • Manage many customer tenants in one place
  • Monitor spend and anomalies across every account
  • Package cost optimization as a managed service
  • Win new customers
  • Improve customer retention

Cloud Service Providers

Give your partners and customers cost clarity that helps them grow Azure spend with confidence and stand out from the crowd.

  • Cost visibility and alerts for every customer
  • Stronger margins through continuous optimization
  • A FinOps layer that differentiates your offering
  • Win new customers
  • Improve customer retention

Who it’s for

Cost Analyzer for every cost stakeholder

One shared view of Azure spend, with the right answers for each
team that touches the bill.

FinOps teams

Bring engineering, finance, and operations onto one cost language, with the visibility and allocation to make every team accountable for its Azure spend.

  • One shared view of spend across every team
  • Showback and chargeback that map to your org
  • Anomaly alerts routed to the owner who can act

CFO & finance leaders

Make Azure spend predictable on the balance sheet. Set budgets, forecast month-end spend, and defend the cloud line with numbers you trust.

  • Budgets and forecasts per team or application
  • Month-end spend predicted before the invoice
  • Fewer surprise bill spikes with anomaly alerts

Engineering & infrastructure

Cut waste without slowing delivery. Get concrete rightsizing and scheduling actions ranked by impact, with no guesswork and no risk to performance.

  • Rightsizing recommendations with clear impact
  • Pause idle non-production resources on a schedule
  • Reservation and savings-plan modeling before you buy

Management teams

Understand Azure costs and exactly where the money goes, without waiting on engineering. Clear dashboards turn raw cloud spend into answers any leader can read.

  • See where every dollar goes at a glance
  • Self-serve cost answers without engineering
  • Spend broken down by team, application, and service

Explore the features

Go deeper on Cost Analyzer

Dive into each capability on its own page.

Anomaly detection

Machine-learned baselines flag unusual Azure spend the day it happens and route the alert to the owner who can act.

Rightsizing

Concrete recommendations to resize or pause under-used resources, with the impact on cost and performance made clear.

Allocation & visibility

Slice spend by subscription, resource group, tag, or business application so every dollar has an owner.

Cost optimization

A continuous stream of optimization insights that goes beyond Azure Advisor to find waste hiding across your estate.

Budget planning

Set budgets per team or application and forecast month-end spend so finance is never caught off guard.

Azure reservations

Model reservations and savings plans before you buy, then track coverage and utilization over time.

Azure showback

Showback and chargeback reports allocate spend to each business unit, team, or application.

AI agents

AI agents analyze your resources and explain cost behavior, then rank the optimization actions worth taking.

Microsoft 365 licenses

Surface inactive and over-licensed Microsoft 365 accounts, then reclaim or downgrade seats so you only pay for licenses people actually use.

Azure Hybrid Benefit

Apply existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to eligible Azure resources, and track coverage so no savings benefit ever goes to waste.

Better together

Pairs well with the rest of the platform

Unified Azure monitoring

Business Applications

Group resources by application. Monitor health, alerts, remediation.

End-to-end tracking

Business Activity Monitoring

Track messages across integrations. Pinpoint where transactions fail.

Governance & compliance

Azure Documenter

Automated, always-current Azure environment documentation.

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