# Cost Management

* Provides a set of tools for monitoring, allocating, and optimizing your Azure costs.<br>
* Main features:<br>
  * Reporting - Generate reports using historical data to forecast future usage and expenditure.<br>
  * Data enrichment - Improve accountability by categorizing resources with tags.<br>
  * Budgets - Create and manage cost and usage budgets by monitoring resources.<br>
  * Alerting - Get alerts based on your cost and usage budgets.<br>
  * Recommendations - Receive recommendations to eliminate idle resources and to optimize the Azure resources you provision.<br>
  * Free.