What do you do when your finance department wants to know why your cloud costs keep going up? In this episode of the #AzureEnablementShow, David and Magnus discuss how to determine if your cloud investment is being managed in the most efficient way and offer tips on how to get started by using Azure Cost Management + Billing. Resources • Cost Management + Billing documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs?source=recommendations • Tutorial: Create and manage Azure budgets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets • Plan to manage Azure costs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs?source=recommendations Related episodes • Join us here to watch more episodes of The Cloud Clinic, as part of the Azure Enablement Show. https://aka.ms/TheCloudClinic https://aka.ms/azenable Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:12 How can you tell if your cloud investment is a good one? 2:40 How can you associate the cost of a resource with a person or team? 3:56 How does using Azure budgets add accountability? 6:10 What are the first steps to get started?