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Azure Cost Summary

An executive-level assessment of the cost of your Azure infrastructure. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth aggregates all cost information from accounts, services, and assets across your cloud infrastructure to provide a comprehensive cost summary in this report.

Navigate to Dashboards > Pulse > Cost Summary to view the Cost Summary dashboard.

Section 1: Cost Summary Customization Options

Filters

Use the following standard filter options to view the report as per your business needs.

  • Accounts
  • Billing Accounts
  • AWS Services
  • Charge Type
  • Regions
  • Organization specific Perspectives (Labeled with the letter P)

Projected Cost

Select one of the projected cost options from the dropdown.

Top List Count

Select a display limit for the number of projected costs.

Overall Budget

Select an overall budget from the dropdown. Categorized and amortized budgets are not available for selection.

Section 2: Cost Summary by Perspective

Customize using Filters, Category, Projected Cost.

  • Month-to-date costs compared to the same time last month.
  • Projected cost for month compared to last month’s cost. Projection is based on a 30-day rolling analysis of your historical usage of services by service item, region, account, and Perspectives.

Section 3: Top Projected Costs by Perspective Group

Customize using Filters, Category, or Top List Count.

Cost trends by a specific Perspective or a combination of Perspective Groups, for example, costs for a specific owner within your production environment.

  • Current month-to-date cost.
  • Previous month cost at this time.
  • Projected month-end cost.
  • Nonrecurring costs, if configured.

Section 4: Top Projected Costs by Service

Customize using Filters, Category, Projected Cost, or Top List Count.

Costs trends by service or service item. The By Service view shows cost trends for specific Azure services you use, for example, Web + Mobile, Compute, or Storage. The By Service Item view expands the services into sub-costs to provide granular detail, for example, Virtual Machine, Disks, Storage Account, or Express Route Circuits.

Section 5: Monthly Cost Allocation

Customize using Filters, Interval, Category, or Chart Type.

  • Cost history for the last 13 months for a specific Perspective.
  • Links to the Cost History report to help you analyze trends in greater detail.

To subscribe the Azure Cost Summary Pulse, click Subscribe > New Subscription at the top-right corner.

Azure Health Check Pulse

An executive-level highlight of Azure cost savings, cloud governance, and potential security risks.

The Azure Tanzu CloudHealth Health Check report is an executive assessment of your cloud infrastructure that highlights cost savings and cloud governance points. Unlike other Pulses, it is intended as a high level report spanning all assets. The total possible monthly savings reported includes all sections.

Data Generation

The data for the report is updated once per day. The bottom of the report has the date of last generation. All sections have a drilldown link to the detailed real-time data, to easily access specific assets or reports. Because the report’s data is cached daily, report values will occasionally differ from the detailed data. Finally, the savings shown represents only assets from configured accounts.

Immediate Saving: Unattached Azure Disks

It’s easy to accumulate Azure disks that are no longer attached to any virtual machine. This section reports on any Azure disk whose state is ‘unattached’ and therefore not used by any virtual machine. The dollar amount to the right of the total number of unattached disks represents the total list price of all unattached disks.

Immediate Saving: Unused Virtual Network Gateways

Unused virtual network gateways still incur cost. This section reports on any virtual gateways that are not being used by any resources and which can therefore be deleted. The dollar amount to the right of the total number of unused virtual network gateways represents the total list price of all unused virtual network gateways.

Immediate Saving: Unused App Service Plans

App Service plans generate costs even when there aren’t any services associated with them. This section reports on any App Service plans that have no associated services and which can therefore be deleted. The dollar amount to the right of the total number of App Service plans represents the total list price of all unused App Service plans.

Immediate Saving: Unused IP Addresses

When you delete a virtual machine, the IP address that was attached to the virtual machine may persist unattached, generating unnecessary costs. This section reports on unused IP addresses that can be deleted. The dollar amount to the right of the total number of IP addresses represents the total list price of unused IP addresses.

Cloud Governance

Cloud Governance identifies virtual machines and resource groups that have not been tagged, and are more than likely not sanctioned by any business group. Common actions for untagged virtual machines are to either fix the tags or terminate them. The total savings represents the total cost, month-to-date, of the matching instances.

Security Risk Exposure

Security recommendations made by the Azure Security Best Practices default policy for High and Critical severity violations. The recommendations appear only if you have enabled the default policy. Click on a recommendation to understand what the particular security issue is and what action you can take to address it. For information on how to enable the default security policy, see The Need to Actively Manage Security.

Operational Monthly Savings: Underutilized Virtual Machines

Identify underutilized VMs to help you get the most out of your VMs for operational efficiency. The default for Severely Underutilized is less than 35% utilization. The dollar amount to the right of the listed instances represents the Wasted Cost column for the current month’s Virtual Machine Rightsizing report.

Operational Monthly Savings: Underutilized SQL Databases

Locate underutilized SQL databases to help you optimize costs and reduce inefficiency. The default for Underutilized is less than 25% utilization in storage and DTU. The dollar amount to the right of the listed databases corresponds to the Savings column for the current month’s SQL Database Rightsizing report.

Reservation Management Monthly Savings

The opportunity for the greatest monthly savings generally comes from diligent RI Management. Reservation Management Monthly Savings calculates potential savings using two budgets numbers. The first is using a limitless budget which gets us the fully optimized savings. The second uses 20% of that as an initial budget for quick hits.

Burndown

For enterprise agreement (EA) customers, it’s important to track the remaining balance against your original commitments. Burndown displays the default Cost Burndown report, which shows the remaining balance by month. You can use this report to verify how much of your original budget you have to spend on new reservations and other purchases.

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