Azure customers manage budgets at a workload level and need granular controls on monitoring the spend on cloud services. Workloads sometimes share a subscription and yet need to be budgeted for individually. As a first step in making these granular controls available we are previewing an ARM API to set and manage a budget at the subscription scope. Current EA customers have a similar capability in the EA portal, at the department level. This release is the first step towards making the same set of capabilities work for you across the hierarchy of your management plane.
The budgets API enables you to setup a budget for a subscription, and also setup multiple notification thresholds. To illustrate, you might have a subscription where you setup a budget of $1,000 and setup notifications at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. These notifications would be triggered when your usage costs exceed $250, $500, $750, and $1,000 respectively.
Read about it in the Azure blog.
