Controlling Azure costs

- [Instructor] Every good business manager … will tell you that it's very important … to have a tight control over your costs. … And Azure understands the need of organizations … to understand clearly how much money they are spending … on their resources, on hosting their resources, … which resources are the most expensive, … from month to month, … how much of their cost increased or decreased, … and what type of usage is incurring all costs … in an Azure subscription. … In order to achieve that clarity in cost management, … Microsoft provides cost management and billion options … inside of the Azure portal. … So to access those, I'm going to click on … Cost Management + Billing directly in my Azure portal, … and a new blade opens up that provides … billing accounts and cost management, … and under Billing accounts I can actually click on … this billing account here … which will provide a historical view of all of my invoices, … the invoices for Microsoft, … specifically for my Azure subscription …