Managing Groups

Introduction

Cost Management Groups can be created to organize the Azure Subscriptions and perform Cost Analysis, Cost Monitoring, and Cost optimization on them.

A Cost Management Group can contain multiple sub-groups.

Cost Management Group overview

The Overview section of a group holds a set of widgets that consists of details related to Cost Monitoring, Cost Optimization Schedules, Cost charts based on Resource/Resource Group/Location, and logs on the recent activities of Optimization and Monitoring alerts.

Subscription selection

• The required subscription(s) to manage the Cost management group can be selected by clicking the Subscription selection in the respective group's context menu from the Explorer view.

Adding a Cost Management Group

• A Cost Management Group(s) can be created by selecting New Cost Management group in the root Cost Management group's context menu from the Explorer view.

Editing a Cost Management Group

• The name and description of an existing Cost Management Group can be updated by selecting the Edit option in the respective group context menu from the Explorer view.

Deleting a Cost Management Group

• Any Cost Management Group that is no longer useful can be deleted by using the Delete option in the respective group context menu from the Explorer view.

Access Policy

• Each Service principal is assigned to the root Cost Management group by default. As a result, there is no way to change the root Cost group's Service principal access policy.