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Preparing this Costframe view
Preparing this Costframe viewMICROSOFT AZURE
Azure cost optimization with evidence you can hand to finance.
Costframe is a read-only Azure cost optimization tool for finding idle, oversized, and orphaned resources. It connects to Azure Resource Graph and Cost Management without write permissions, prices findings with configured net-rate context, and creates an audit trail finance can review.
Azure savings breakdown
The biggest Azure savings are usually hiding in repeatable places.
The breakdown is illustrative, but the categories match the detector families: compute sizing, unattached storage, networking leftovers, SQL underuse, and commitment coverage.
Azure proof and readiness
Permissions, supported APIs, unsupported APIs, and setup path.
- Permissions
- Reader + Cost Management Reader on selected subscriptions or scopes.
- Supported APIs
- Azure Resource Graph, Cost Management ActualCost, Azure Monitor utilization, and Azure Retail Prices where available.
- Unsupported
- Owner, Contributor, deployment, resize, delete, write actions, and customer application payload access.
- Readiness
- Ready when service principal roles validate and the first cost, inventory, and metric sync completes.
- Setup timeline
- Register app → assign scopes → validate connection → run audit → review Evidence Ledger.
- Evidence Ledger
- Findings must show checked evidence, unavailable evidence, freshness, confidence, owner review, and verification state.
More than 20 detectors
Idle and oversized VMs (exact resize via catalog), stopped-but-billing machines, unattached disks, unused public IPs, idle load balancers and NAT gateways, old snapshots, empty App Service plans, under-used SQL, hot-tier storage, and more — plus optional governance/security-posture checks.
Net vs. list pricing
Configure EA/MCA discount terms or approved overrides to review savings estimates against what you actually pay. List value remains separate from net impact.
Auto-updating price catalog
We pull the public Azure Retail Prices API weekly to build a SKU index, so VM resize recommendations track real market ratios.
Azure Advisor cross-check
Findings can be compared with Azure Advisor where recommendation evidence is available, helping reviewers separate native recommendations from Costframe detector output.
Read-only access · No write permissions · No automated changes