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Azure Cost Management: Understanding Savings Plan Chargeback
We have had a chargeback model for Azure that includes reserved instance costs for many years now. We can bill regular Azure usage to various business groups as well as their exact usage of a RI from the amortized costing data. (I pull the costs from the amortized table and filter by reservation name to get that info)
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Savings Plans which functions similar to an RI in that the monthly cost is allocated to a particular subscription and the actual usage costs are needed to do the billback.
I see articles on how to find this in the portal or the API but nothing yet with the Power BI connector. The only thing I can see is the "UnusedSavingsPlan" under "ChargeType".
Does anyone know how to pull the actual usage of the azure savings plan?
Answering my own question:
Use the Amortization table and select ProductOrderID and input the orderID shown in the Azure portal for your savings plan(s).
I spoke with a Microsoft support person who said that they are working on making it easier to find savings plans just like we can find reserved instances.
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Answering my own question:
Use the Amortization table and select ProductOrderID and input the orderID shown in the Azure portal for your savings plan(s).
I spoke with a Microsoft support person who said that they are working on making it easier to find savings plans just like we can find reserved instances.