# Cost Management

* Provides a set of tools for monitoring, allocating, and optimizing your Azure costs.\\

* Main features:\\

  * Reporting - Generate reports using historical data to forecast future usage and expenditure.\\

  * Data enrichment - Improve accountability by categorizing resources with tags.\\

  * Budgets - Create and manage cost and usage budgets by monitoring resources.\\

  * Alerting - Get alerts based on your cost and usage budgets.\\

  * Recommendations - Receive recommendations to eliminate idle resources and to optimize the Azure resources you provision.\\

  * Free.
