Defining Costs of Azure VM Scale Set Instances

This article explains how to define Azure VM SS instance cost using Cloudaware reports.

Azure customers utilize Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) to enhance application performance and resiliency. However, calculating the costs of individual VMSS instances can be challenging, as Azure billing files do not include resource IDs for these instances. Cloudaware addresses this issue by using a custom formula that divides the total Azure VM Scale Set cost by the SKU capacity.

Users can include the custom field 'Azure VMSS Instance Cost' in Cloudaware reports to monitor these costs effectively: