The Looker Block for Azure billing provides insights around usage of Azure services and the associated costs. Whether you need the report segmented by product type, user identity, or region, this report can be cut-and-sliced any number of ways to properly allocate costs for any of your business needs. You can then drill into any specific line item to see even more detail, such as the selected operating system, tenancy, purchase option (on-demand, spot, or reserved), etc..

This Block focuses on the three most common levers of cost-savings, including:

• Increasing reserved instance coverage and utilization
• Decreasing data transfer costs
• Allocating costs over custom variable

Please refer to Azure's Cost Managment export documentation or the Azure Billing REST API for instructions on how to load Azure Cost Management and Billing data into your Microsoft Azure SQL Warehouse. This block assumes a Looker connection to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.