# Official Sources

## References

Load these only when needed, following progressive disclosure:

- [Plan to manage Azure costs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs) — use for baseline cost-governance posture, budgets, alerts, pricing, and optimization framing.
- [Tutorial: Create and manage budgets](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets) — use for budget scope, thresholds, forecast alerts, and evaluation behavior.
- [Azure landing zone governance design area](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/design-area/governance) — use when cost controls must be anchored in broader Azure governance ownership, scope, and policy operating model.
- [Get started with Cost Management reporting](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/reporting-get-started) — use for cost analysis visibility, reporting limits, and scope-aware analysis workflow.
- [Tutorial: Create and manage Cost Management exports](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-improved-exports) — use for export automation, datasets, storage delivery, and recurring reporting workflows.
- [Cost recommendations - Azure Advisor](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-reference-cost-recommendations) — use when challenging waste, idle capacity, or optimization recommendation quality.
- [Azure pricing tools for the Azure MCP Server](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/azure-pricing) — use when cost estimation, pricing lookup, or template-based pricing evidence is needed through official Azure MCP tooling.
- [Azure Advisor tools for the Azure MCP Server overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/azure-advisor) — use when live Advisor-backed cost recommendation evidence is available through Azure MCP.
