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In Azure: Sidebar -> Cost Management + Billing -> Cost Management -> Cost analysis (preview).

It's slow, you can't open links in new tabs, one wrong click and you have navigate to the right page and wait for everything to refresh again, but you can get the list of billed items. Plus a "Other subscription charges" that contains some mystery costs not linked to anything.

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‘ contains some mystery costs not linked to anything’

Hard to believe that really is the case for a product targeting serious customers in 2021. Doesn’t that make a surprise bill still possible?

The state of cloud billing seems like exactly the result you'd get if you didn't have a strong mandate that product teams implement a unified, centralized billing interface.

And it makes sense from a growth perspective: new products grow revenue, bad billing systems only annoy customers (but mostly invisibly).

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