Connect Azure

CloudOptify reads cost and resource data from your Azure tenant with read-only access — it never holds write permissions to your cloud.

Add a tenant

1. In the portal, go to Cloud Connections.
2. Choose Add Azure tenant and follow the consent flow with an account that can grant read access in your tenant.
3. Back in CloudOptify, click Test on the new tenant to verify the connection. A verified tenant shows a green status.

What access is granted?

CloudOptify requests read-only access to cost/billing data and resource metadata. It cannot create, modify, or delete anything in your tenant.

Select subscriptions

Once the tenant is verified:

1. Open the tenant’s Subscriptions view.
2. Tick the subscriptions you want CloudOptify to analyze.
3. Save the selection.

Only selected subscriptions are scanned and counted against your plan’s subscription limit. You can change the selection at any time.

Deselecting a subscription

If a subscription is used by a Cloud Group, a scheduled report, or a budget alert, deselecting it shows a warning listing the impact. Proceeding removes it from those places — see Connection lifecycle.

Multiple tenants

You can connect multiple Azure tenants (plan limits apply). Each tenant is verified and managed independently, and the global filter lets you scope any view to specific tenants, subscriptions, or groups.

Want exact, per-resource Azure cost?

Connecting a Cost Management export gives you billing-accurate numbers, deeper history, and unlocks tag-based allocation, Cost by Region, and Top Resources. See Azure per-resource cost (Cost Management Export) — it’s optional and CloudOptify can even create the export for you.

Next step

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