# 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 the core Microsoft framing: estimate first, then monitor, analyze, and manage.
- [Estimate costs with the Azure pricing calculator](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/pricing-calculator) — use for calculator behavior, inputs, saved estimates, agreement-price caveats, and estimate-sharing limits.
- [Cost Management + Billing documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/) — use for pricing-and-estimation navigation, scope concepts, and adjacent cost-management references.
- [Azure landing zone governance design area](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/design-area/governance) — use when the estimate must be tied to ownership, scope, policy, and governance accountability.
- [Manage savings plans](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/manage-savings-plan) — use when the estimate depends on savings-plan assumptions and those assumptions need ownership and scope realism.
- [Azure MCP Server tools inventory](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/) — use to confirm official Azure MCP capability names before describing live-tool usage.
- [Azure pricing tools for the Azure MCP Server](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/azure-pricing) — use when official Azure MCP pricing evidence is available for retail pricing, billing questions, or template-based estimate support.

## Official Sources

- Microsoft Learn — Plan to manage Azure costs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs
- Microsoft Learn — Estimate costs with the Azure pricing calculator: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/pricing-calculator
- Microsoft Learn — Cost Management + Billing documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/
- Microsoft Learn — Azure landing zone governance design area: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/design-area/governance
- Microsoft Learn — Manage savings plans: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/manage-savings-plan
- Microsoft Learn — Azure MCP Server tools inventory: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/
- Microsoft Learn — Azure pricing tools for the Azure MCP Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/tools/azure-pricing
