cost-estimation
Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: "forecast Azure spending", "project next month cost", "compare forecast to my planning target", "how much will Azure cost", "estimate VM cost", "compare storage tiers", "compare Azure regions", "retail price", "EA rate card", "negotiated pricesheet". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.
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- Azure Cost Estimation
- Quick Reference
- When to Use This Skill
- MCP Tools
- Workflow
- Error Handling
| Intent | Workflow | Primary tools | |--------|----------|---------------| | Forecast existing spend | Cost forecast | forecastcosts | | Price planned resources | Pricing estimate | Pricing tools | Use for forecasts, pricing, and planning targets. | Tool | Use | |------|-----| | forecastcosts | Forecast a scope. | | getretailprices | Get public prices. | | startpricesheetdownload, getpricesheetstatus | Get Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) prices. | Fallback: API mappings. 1. Distinguish forecasts from hypothetical pricing. 2. Confirm scope, assumptions, period, region, OS, and currency. 3. Load the matching workflow and label every value type. 4. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries. | Error | Action | |-------|--------| | Ambiguous meter | Ask for OS, term, tier, or usage. | | Forecast unavailable | Explain the history requirement. | | Pricesheet pending | Honor the returned polling interval. | | Multiple currencies | Never combine currencies. | | Server error | Retry once; then report the trace ID. |
- Source repository
- microsoft/skills
- Source file
- .github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-estimation/SKILL.md
- Fixed revision
- 9287b443662d2433c85621c7325ee72a0ce499b5
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