What problem does it solve? Azure cloud bills grow opaque and uncontrolled: untagged resources, idle VMs, over-provisioned SKUs, and on-demand pricing for steady workloads silently inflate spend. This Skill provides the FinOps operating doctrine and Azure toolchain to allocate, understand, optimize, and govern cloud cost continuously. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Cost allocation and reporting: Enforce tag strategy and management-group hierarchy to reach ≥90% allocatable spend, with Cost Management exports in FOCUS format feeding FinOps hubs and Power BI. - Usage and rate optimization: Find waste with Azure Resource Graph KQL (stopped-but-not-deallocated VMs, unattached disks, orphaned IPs), rightsize via Azure Advisor, then layer Reservations, Savings Plans, Spot, and Azure Hybrid Benefit at 60–85% coverage. - Budgets, forecasting, and governance: Set budgets with action groups, track forecast variance toward ±15%, manage anomalies within 24h, and enforce guardrails with Azure Policy. - Use Case: A platform team notices a 20% month-over-month cost spike. Run the read-only triage scripts to summarize spend by service, inventory removable waste, and check commitment coverage, then route each remediation through a gated, human-approved change. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to analyze this month's Azure spend, identify idle or orphaned resources, and recommend rightsizing and reservation actions using the azure-finops skill.
