How to Download Azure Price Sheet
There are two ways to immediately lower your eye-watering Azure bill:
— Buy Reserved Instances: which cover specific resources in a specific zone.
— Buy Savings Plans: which covers all resources across all regions. (But you have less discounts than Reserved Instances)
The old good recipe: pay more to pay less.
Azure Price Sheet
Not even ChatGPT can guide you and as far as I can tell this is the the very first blog that will guide you through the process step by step.
— Go to the official Azure Price Sheet guide and click on the Try it button
- Login with your Azure account and forget about using the Azure REST API form the browser. Open Postman instead and paste this URL in a POST call:
https://management.azure.com:443/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/{billingAccountsID}/billingProfiles/{billingProfilesID}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/pricesheets/default/download?api-version=2022-10-01&format=csv
and replace the:
- {billingAccountsID} with the Billing Account ID you will find under Cost Management > Properties > General ID
- {billingProfilesID} with the Billing Profile ID you will find under Cost Management > Billing Profiles > {YourBillingProfile} > Properties
Then copy/paste the Bearer token that you will find in the browser page in the Postman’s Headers (and don’t forget to delete the space at the end):
- You will receive a Status: 202 Accepted . Now go into the Headers in the response and copy the Location:
- Now paste that URL to a new Postman tab and fire a new GET call. The URL will fill up the Keys for you. Copy/paste the Bearer token again on the Headers:
And now you can query that endpoint for a good 10 minutes and nothing will happen: you will keep receiving a Status: 202 Accepted.
— But after 10 minutes you will receive a Status: 202 OK and a download URL:
Open that URL and you will download a .zip file with 4 CSV: that is your Azure Price Sheet.
Wait a sec, there must be a click and download button, right?
No.
You can go to Cost Management > Invoices > choose one invoice > Download Price Sheet , but that button is broken, after 20 minutes you will receive an error and and you cannot download the Azure Price Sheet:
