A municipal cloud office already deployed production resources and now needs ongoing visibility and control of Azure spend. Why is the pricing calculator alone insufficient?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
The estimate got you to launch; now you need the dashboard for the road trip. Cost Management watches actual spend, budgets, and trends after resources are live. The calculator alone cannot manage day-to-day costs.
Full Explanation
The pricing calculator remains useful for future what-if planning, but operating environments need Azure Cost Management for actual cost visibility, analysis, budgets, and related controls. Ongoing optimization depends on those post-deployment capabilities. Arc extends management to hybrid machines; it is not the primary cloud cost-management suite for Azure-native spend.