Cost and Usage Reporting

Administrators can view and download a detailed report of resource usage and costs incurred for a selected time period.

The report displays the total cost for the selected period as well as a breakdown of the cost and usage per resource.

For each resource used, the report displays the following information:

  • Resource name, type, and creator
  • Hostname
  • VM size
  • Project space
  • Date used
  • Cost incurred
  • Time used (hours)
  • Price per hour
  • OS type and version
  • Applications installed
  • Tags
  • Resource ID, project space ID, cluster ID (if applicable)
Note: The cost report only tracks charges incurred by running virtual desktops and clusters based on the list price for virtual machine hardware in the selected region. It does not account for charges incurred by other services and processes that are associated with Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Ansys application licenses

  • Storage (data disks, Azure Files and Azure NetApp Files storage volumes ― see Managed Disks pricing)

  • Data transfer (see Bandwidth pricing)

  • Virtual machine maintenance

  • Other services provided by Azure which have an associated cost

To view a cost report for a selected period:

  1. On the main toolbar, click to access the Administration page.

  2. In the navigation pane, select Cost reporting.

  3. On the Cost reporting page, specify the Start date and End date of the period for which you would like to view a report. You can view up to 6 months of cost activity at a time.

    The report displays the total cost and itemized cost activity for the selected period.

    Tip: To copy a report value to your clipboard, select the text and then right-click and select Copy. As entries in the Tags column can be very lengthy, you do not have to select the text first. Just right-click anywhere on the tag entry and select Copy.

  4. To download the report as a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, click Download CSV. You can open the file in a text editor or spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.

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