# Azure Cost

> Azure Cost is an officially published skill from Microsoft. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/skill/azure-cost
- **Kind:** Skill
- **Publisher:** Microsoft
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 20/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://github.com/microsoft
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/skill/azure-cost

## Description

Manages Azure spend — forecasting, attributing cost to resources, and identifying waste such as idle capacity and oversized instances.

It reads billing APIs with cloud credentials over the network, so it declares outbound network and credential access, but performs no writes. That read-only shape makes it one of the safer cloud skills: the worst case is that billing data, which describes your architecture and scale in some detail, enters a model context. For most organisations that is an acceptable trade for finding the idle cluster nobody remembered.

## Why it scored 20

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |
| 1 high-risk capability: credentials:access | +10 | high |  |

Clamped result: **20/100**, band **low**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `network:outbound` | Outbound network | Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access. |
| `credentials:access` | Credentials access | Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment. |

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json