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Navigating Azure Retail Pricing Data in Power BI: My Journey
MicrosoftOut of curiosity, what are you doing with this data?
The FinOps toolkit offers Power BI reports that join cost and price data via Cost Management exports. This includes retail and discounted prices. The reports are only currently populating missing prices in the Cost Management data today, but I'd love to learn more about what you need to see if it's something we can support out of the box.
Hey micflan ,
Our approach was an attempt to streamline and be transparent with our chargeback costs. Estimates are done using the Azure Pricing Calculator, sometimes by the users themselves, but mostly with our Cloud team from the start. This way, they plan for and pay what they see, ensuring transparency for everyone. This removes the need to determine how much of our Azure discount is applied to each product, as we've learned it isn't evenly distributed across all resources.
We also use Tags extensively within our environment for resource identification, lifecycle management, cost management, business logic, and for showback/chargeback. For the latter, we struggle with extending Reserved Instance (RI) savings back to projects/BUs, partly due to our architecture and heavy reliance on tagging. As you know, RIs can't be tagged. For this reason, we have shied away from purchasing RIs for project/BU resources.
Right or wrong, I felt that using retail pricing for showback/chargeback struck the right balance for us.