Azure Pricing Skill

Fetch live Azure retail pricing data via the Azure MCP Server pricing tool and turn it into actionable cost estimates, region comparisons, and deployment-level forecasts.

When to Use

• "How much does Standard_D4s_v5 cost in uksouth?"
• "Estimate the cost of this Bicep/ARM/Terraform template"
• "Compare VM pricing between uksouth and westeurope"
• "Show me Reservation vs Consumption pricing for SQL Database"
• "What are the cheapest storage SKUs in uksouth?"
• "Include savings plan pricing for this compute tier"
• Any request for Azure pricing, cost estimates, or SKU comparisons

Required Tooling

• MCP tool: Azure pricing tool provided by the Azure VS Code extension (ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-github-copilot). No mcp.json configuration is required — the tool is registered automatically by the extension.

Before invoking the pricing tool, always run tool_search_tool_regex with pattern pricing to discover the exact tool name. Do not guess or hardcode the name.