Azure Cost Management Skill

SkillCloud & infra

azure-cost lets your AI work with Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. Once added, your AI can check what you are spending and manage your cloud resources, so everyday Azure tasks become simple conversations.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

After adding it, ask your AI to check your Azure costs or manage one of your resources.

Then ask your AI: use the Azure Cost Management Skill skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Check your Azure costs
  • Manage your Azure resources
  • Answer questions about your cloud spending
  • Help with everyday Azure tasks

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/azure-skills in skills/azure-cost/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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

Routing

User IntentWorkflow
Understand current costsCost Query
Reduce costs / find wasteCost Optimization
Project future costsCost Forecast

Quick Reference

PropertyValue
Query APIPOST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01
Forecast APIPOST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01
Required RoleCost 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

References

Signals

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Last commit
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
azure-cost
Source
github.com/microsoft/azure-skills