Reconciling Telstra Azure Invoice

Overview

This article will walk you through the necessary steps to reconcile your monthly Azure usage charges. You can choose to use up to three sources to review your usage.

Prerequisites

You will need:

• Access to Telstra Cloudsight
• At least Cost Management Reader access to your Microsoft Azure services
• Access to your Telstra Invoice

Microsoft Cost Management (previously Azure Cost Management)

Microsoft Cost Management helps you understand and control your Azure spending in near real time. To utilize this tool:

1. Log in to your Azure portal.
2. Navigate to Cost Management + Billing.
3. Select Cost Management from the sidebar.
4. Review the cost analysis for the same period as your Telstra bill.
5. Download the cost report if needed.

Microsoft Cost Management offers visual insights and detailed breakdowns of your expenses, which can be compared against your Telstra bill and CloudSight usage data.  More information on using Microsoft Cost Management is available here.

NOTE: Microsoft Cost Management's default view does not include all of your charges for a given month. An example is Reserved Instances are not displayed without adding them to the view.

 

Telstra CloudSight

Login to Telstra CloudSight with your MyTelstra credentials. Once logged in navigate to Cost Reporting

Use the drop down to select the historical month usage you would like to download

Select Download CSV

Opening the downloaded file will display a spreadsheet with the aggregated months usage. The columns of importance are:

Column A	Column E	Column H	Column P	Column R	Column S
Your Telstra Cloud Subscription ID	Azure Service Charge Category	SKU Name	Total Charge for SKU	Charge Start Date	Charge End Date
This is the subscription identifer for the charges	This will identify which charge the usage falls into on the Telstra invoice	The SKU and Region where usage was billed	Total billable charges for the SKU in the region	First date of the billing month	Last date of the billing month

Use Column E to filter down Azure Service Charge Category listed on the Telstra invoice

Once a Service Charge Category has been selected the Sum in Column P will equate directly to the Service Charge Category on your Telstra Invoice.

 

Telstra Invoice

All usage on the Telstra invoice is aggregated to the Azure Plan level. This means all subscriptions are combined on your Telstra bill.  Remember the invoice may display 5 different charge types on your invoice which can be reconciled using the TCS usage report table as above.

- PAYG Usage
- Reserved Instances
- Marketplace
- Software Subscriptions
- Savings Plans

Below is an example of how Azure charges may appear on your Telstra invoice.