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Cloudyn Microsoft Cost Management

Legacy names Cloudyn, Azure Cost Management + Billing

Native FinOps and cloud financial management suite for analyzing, forecasting, budgeting, allocating, and exporting cloud spending across Microsoft Cloud and multicloud environments.

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Naming timeline

  1. Cloudyn

    · Microsoft Acquisition of Cloudyn

    Acquired Cloudyn to provide initial cloud cost visibility, chargeback, and multicloud cost analytics for Azure customers before retiring the standalone Cloudyn portal in 2021.

  2. Azure Cost Management + Billing

    · Native Azure Cost Management General Availability

    Launched native ARM-based Cost Analysis, Budgets, Alerts, and Scheduled Exports in the Azure portal under 'Microsoft.CostManagement' and 'Microsoft.Consumption'.

  3. Microsoft Cost ManagementCurrent name

    · Microsoft Cloud FinOps Rebrand

    Rebranded from Azure Cost Management to Microsoft Cost Management to encompass spending analysis across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform.

What is Cloudyn called now?

Cloudyn is now called Microsoft Cost Management, with the latest change in October 2022 (Microsoft Cloud FinOps Rebrand). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Azure Cost Management + Billing. Native FinOps and cloud financial management suite for analyzing, forecasting, budgeting, allocating, and exporting cloud spending across Microsoft Cloud and multicloud environments. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Azure Cost Management
  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Microsoft Cost Management and Billing

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*)Microsoft.CostManagement/exports Microsoft.CostManagement/views Microsoft.CostManagement/scheduledActions Microsoft.Consumption/budgets
Azure CLI (az) / PowerShellaz costmanagement az costmanagement export az consumption budget New-AzCostManagementExport
Entra ID / Azure RBAC RolesCost Management Contributor Cost Management Reader Billing Reader
Terraform Resources (azurerm_*)azurerm_resource_group_cost_management_export azurerm_subscription_cost_management_export azurerm_cost_management_scheduled_action azurerm_consumption_budget_subscription azurerm_consumption_budget_resource_group

All 'Microsoft.CostManagement' and 'Microsoft.Consumption' ARM APIs, 'az costmanagement' CLI commands, 'Cost Management *' RBAC roles, and 'azurerm_*_cost_management_*' Terraform resources remain unchanged.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Following Microsoft's June 2017 acquisition of multicloud cost management startup Cloudyn, Microsoft built a native Azure Cost Management service (GA September 2018) inside the Azure portal and retired the standalone Cloudyn portal in 2021.
  • Between 2022 and 2023, Microsoft rebranded Azure Cost Management to Microsoft Cost Management to reflect broader coverage across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and AWS connector integrations.
  • Underlying ARM Resource Provider namespaces ('Microsoft.CostManagement' and 'Microsoft.Consumption'), Azure CLI commands ('az costmanagement'), RBAC roles ('Cost Management Contributor' and 'Cost Management Reader'), and Terraform resources ('azurerm_cost_management_*') remain unchanged.

Sources & official documentation

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