slug: microsoft-azure-cost-management
provider: Azure Cost Management
generated_by: planning/capability-mapping/scripts/classify_capabilities.py
model: claude-opus-5
frame:
- Software & Technology
min_confidence: 0.7
capability_model:
  source: https://github.com/vincentmakes/turbo-ea-capabilities
  license: CC-BY-4.0
  attribution: Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet — Turbo EA, https://github.com/vincentmakes/turbo-ea-capabilities,
    CC BY 4.0
  notice: NOTICE
edge_count: 7
edges:
- tag: Providers
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-providers-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.85
  evidence: POST /{scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast 'Forecast usage'; POST .../query
    'Query usage'; POST .../generateCostDetailsReport; GET .../benefitRecommendations
  reason: Catch-all tag whose operations perform cloud cost and usage querying, forecasting, cost-detail
    reporting and savings-benefit recommendations — core IT spend analysis and cost optimisation, i.e.
    IT Financial Management.
- tag: Alerts
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.8
  evidence: Alerts_List / Alerts_Dismiss on /providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/alerts, schemas AlertCategory,
    AlertSource, DismissAlertPayload
  reason: 'Homograph check: these are cloud spend/budget threshold alerts within Microsoft Cost Management,
    not security or financial-crime alerts. They support monitoring and controlling IT spend, i.e. IT
    Financial Management.'
- tag: CostAllocationRuleDefinitions
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-costallocationruledefinitions-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.8
  evidence: CostAllocationRules_CreateOrUpdate; schemas SourceCostAllocationResource, TargetCostAllocationResource,
    CostAllocationProportion
  reason: Defines rules that distribute shared cloud costs from source to target resources in proportions
    — chargeback/showback allocation of IT spend, which BC-600.80 explicitly covers.
- tag: Budgets
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-budgets-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.75
  evidence: Budgets_CreateOrUpdate on Microsoft.CostManagement/budgets; schemas BudgetProperties, ForecastSpend,
    CurrentSpend, Notification
  reason: Creates and manages spend budgets with forecast/current spend and notification thresholds for
    Azure consumption — budgeting of IT/cloud cost, best fit IT Financial Management rather than enterprise
    FP&A budgeting.
- tag: GenerateCostDetailsReport
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-generatecostdetailsreport-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.7
  evidence: GenerateCostDetailsReportRequestDefinition, ReportManifest, CostDetailsMetricType, CostDetailsTimePeriod
  reason: Generates detailed cost-and-usage detail reports over a scope and time period — reporting on
    cloud spend, i.e. IT Financial Management. The exposed operation is a result-retrieval call, which
    tempers confidence.
- tag: ViewOperationGroup
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-viewoperationgroup-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.7
  evidence: PUT /{scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/views/{viewName} 'Views create or update by
    scope'; schemas KpiProperties, ReportConfigAggregation, ReportGranularityType, ChartType
  reason: Saved Cost Analysis view definitions (report configuration, KPIs, pivots, chart types) used
    to report and analyse cloud spend — IT cost reporting and optimisation under IT Financial Management.
- tag: Views
  spec_file: microsoft-azure-cost-management-views-api-openapi.yml
  capability_id: BC-600.80
  capability_id_l1: BC-600
  capability_name: IT Financial Management
  confidence: 0.7
  evidence: GET /providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/views 'Views list'; schemas ReportConfigGrouping,
    KpiProperties, ReportConfigFilter, View
  reason: Tenant-level saved cost analysis report configurations for viewing and analysing Azure spend;
    supports IT spend visibility and cost optimisation.