Azure Cost Management for ISVs

rodneyjoyce thanks for your positive feedback!

With respect to your statement about who uses the Azure Portal for this type of work, this depends somewhat on the customer in our (FastTrack for Azure for ISVs and Startups) experience.  At smaller ISVs, and at large ISVs with small, dedicated project teams, it's not that unusual for someone acting as a project manager or even CFO to be logging in to the Azure Portal for billing review and management.  I was on two calls yesterday with customers in this situation, where in both cases the responsible person (both organizations had a staff too small to have a dedicated CFO role, but of course someone has to pay the bills 🙂) was using the Azure Portal's tools for this analysis. 

This particular video was by design focusing on the "in box" tools available on the platform, which is why it doesn't get into third-party billing analysis tools.  However, there's definitely multiple partners out there that can integrate with the Azure platform from a cost management and governance viewpoint, including our friends at CloudMonitor.