“Your Azure bill is up 35% this quarter across 4 subscriptions, 12 resource groups, and 50+ services. Cost Management + Billing has the data but the view you need does not exist. The security team asks "are we compliant with CIS?" — Defender for Cloud has the answer, somewhere. Activity logs hold the "why" behind every cost spike and every permission change. Today, getting a single cross-service answer means opening five portals and stitching CSV exports by hand.”
Azure2BI
Early BirdCloud FinOpsAzure cost, security, and logs — in plain English.
Azure2BI connects to Cost Management, Defender for Cloud, and Activity Logs and lets you ask cross-service questions in plain English. Subscription-level spend, resource right-sizing, security posture, policy drift, and audit events — one conversation instead of five portals.
Who uses Azure2BI?
Real people with real problems this product solves.
Azure cost views fragment by subscription, resource group, and tag
Ask "top 5 services driving spend in production this month" — one unified answer
Right-sizing VMs and App Services requires reading months of metrics manually
AI recommends downsizes with estimated monthly savings — per VM and App Service
Defender for Cloud findings scattered across subscriptions with no priority signal
Unified security queue ranked by severity and blast radius
Evidence collection for CIS / ISO 27001 audits takes weeks of screenshots
Ask "what is our CIS Azure Foundations compliance percentage?" — exportable report
How to connect
Connection method: Azure AD app registration — read-only access to Cost Management, Defender, and Activity Logs
Create an Azure AD app registration and grant it Reader + Cost Management Reader on your subscriptions
Enter the tenant ID, client ID, and secret into Azure2BI
We pull historical cost, security, and audit data automatically
Start asking questions in plain English — no KQL, no MDX, no portal hopping
What it replaces
Every feature exists because something was broken before.
Subscription-wide cost
Azure Cost Management splits views by subscription with no cross-sub rollups
Aggregate cost across all subscriptions and resource groups — query by any tag
Resource right-sizing
Over-provisioned VMs and App Services silently waste thousands/month
Analyzes CPU/memory patterns and recommends downsizes with estimated savings
Reserved Instance utilization
RIs and Savings Plans are purchased but nobody audits whether they are used
RI utilization dashboard — flags unused reservations and coverage gaps
Defender unified view
Security recommendations scattered across subs, regions, resource types
Single queryable feed with cross-subscription correlation and severity ranking
Policy + compliance
Azure Policy drift and CIS/ISO gaps require manual dashboard trawls
Ask "which resources are out of compliance with CIS 1.2.0?" — get the list
Activity log search
Investigating who changed what requires KQL expertise and patience
Plain English queries on Activity Log — who, what, when, blast radius
Questions you can ask right now
Type any of these into Azure2BI and get an instant answer.
Industries using Azure2BI
Same product, different industries. Here's how teams across sectors use Azure2BI to solve their specific data pains.
SaaS & Tech
Multi-region Azure footprint for global customers. Per-customer cost attribution impossible without tag discipline.
They ask
“Cost per customer from our tenant_id tag for the last quarter?”
FinTech & Banking
Regulated workloads with strict CIS and PCI-DSS controls. Auditors want evidence every quarter.
They ask
“CIS Azure benchmark compliance by subscription with gaps flagged?”
Healthcare
HIPAA workloads isolated into separate subscriptions. Encryption and access-policy evidence takes weeks to assemble.
They ask
“Are all HIPAA-tagged storage accounts using customer-managed keys and private endpoints?”
Retail & E-commerce
Seasonal traffic spikes cause unexpected App Service and SQL cost surges. Post-mortems happen after the bill arrives.
They ask
“Which resources had cost spikes above 3x baseline during Black Friday week?”
Manufacturing
Hybrid on-prem + Azure estate with many resource groups by plant. Central FinOps team has no unified view.
They ask
“Azure spend per plant (by resource_group tag) for the last 6 months?”
Media & Streaming
CDN, Media Services, and egress dominate the bill. Content teams do not see which asset or region costs most to deliver.
They ask
“Top 10 Storage accounts by egress cost this month with their regions?”
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