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Savings plan purchase recommendations are calculated by analyzing your hourly pay-as-you-go usage and cost data. Recommendations are generated for the selected savings plan term (1- or 3-years), benefit scope (shared, subscription and look back period (7-, 30-, or 60-days). Azure calculates your potential savings by simulating the total costs you would have under a savings plan. It examines each combination of term, benefit scope, and look back period. It then compares these simulated costs with the actual pay-as-you-go costs you incurred. The commitment amount that returns the greatest savings for each term, benefit scope and look back period combination is highlighted. To learn more about how recommendations are generated, see How savings plan recommendations are generated.

Azure doesn't currently provide savings plan recommendations for management groups. For more information, see Recommendations for management groups.

Savings plan recommendations are available in Azure Advisor, the Azure portal, and the Savings plan benefit recommendations API.

Recommendations in Azure Advisor

Recommendations for one and three-year savings plans in Azure Advisor are currently only available for subscription scopes. These recommendations currently only have a 30-day look back period.

Recommendations in Azure portal

Recommendations for one- and three-year savings plans in Azure portal are available for shared, subscription, and resource group scopes. These recommendations currently only have a 30-day look back period.

Savings plan Recommendations API

One and tthree-year savings plan recommendations from the Savings plan benefit recommendations API are available for shared, subscription, and resource group scopes. These recommendations are available for 7-, 30-, and 60-day look back periods.

Recommendations for management groups

Currently, the Azure portal doesn't provide savings plan recommendations for management groups. As a workaround, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Aggregate the recommended hourly commitments for all subscriptions within the management group.
  2. Purchase up to ~70% of the above value.
  3. Wait at least three days for the newly purchased savings plan to affect your subscription recommendations.
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 until you have your desired coverage levels.

Need help? Contact us

If you have Azure savings plan for compute questions, contact your account team, or create a support request. Temporarily, Microsoft only provides Azure savings plan for compute expert support requests in English.

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