Now Available: Management Group–Scoped Savings Plan and Reservation Recommendations in Azure

Smarter commitments, at the scope that matters

We're excited to announce that both savings plan and reservation (including P3) recommendations are now available at the management group scope in the Azure Portal and via REST API. With management group–scoped recommendations, you can now evaluate and act on both your savings plan and reservation opportunities across an entire organizational hierarchy in a single, unified view. If you manage cost and commitments across a multi-subscription estate, this is another way to maximize both your savings plan and reservation commitment coverage with confidence.

The value proposition

Management groups are how enterprises organize subscriptions to reflect their real business structure — by department, environment, geography, or line of business. Bringing savings plan and reservation recommendations to this scope delivers three key benefits:

• Aggregated purchasing power. Recommendations account for the combined, steady-state usage and spend across the subscriptions under a management group. For both reservations and savings plans, this surfaces commitment levels that better reflect true aggregate consumption.
• Governance-aligned decisions. FinOps teams and central IT can generate and review both savings plan and reservation recommendations at the exact organizational boundary where budget and commitment decisions are actually made — no more reconciling dozens of separate subscription-level recommendations.
• Reduced analysis overhead. A single API call or portal view returns recommendations for an entire management group, with configurable term and look-back period. Less manual aggregation, faster time to a confident purchase decision.

How it works

The recommendation engine analyzes your historical usage over your selected look-back window, models the optimal commitment, and projects the expected savings versus pay-as-you-go pricing — now with the management group as a first-class scope for both savings plans and reservations.

In the Azure Portal: Navigate to the Savings plans or Reservations purchasing experience, then select a management group scope to view aggregated recommendations.

Via the REST API:

• For savings plans, call the Savings Plan Recommendations endpoint with a management group scope.
• For reservations — including P3 — call the Reservation Recommendations endpoint with a management group scope.

Get started today

Explore the Benefit Recommendations and Reservation Recommendations API references to start integrating management group recommendations into your FinOps tooling today.