Technical requirements

For this chapter, you'll need the following:

• A computer with internet connectivity.
• Access to the Azure portal.
• Privileges to access Cost Management information (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/assign-access-acm-data).
• To execute cost report scripts, you'll need a host with at least PHP 7.4 and a MySQL or MariaDB database. It's also mandatory to have the initialized and imported billing data from Chapter 3, Monitoring Costs.

You can find the code for this chapter here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Road-to-Azure-Cost-Governance/tree/main/Chapter%205.