{"id":10969,"date":"2025-10-21T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:57:31","slug":"cost-management-is-now-account-throughput","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/cost-management-is-now-account-throughput\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCost Management\u201d Is Now \u201cAccount Throughput\u201d and It\u2019s Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>\u201cCost Management\u201d<\/strong> section has been <strong>renamed to \u201cAccount Throughput\u201d<\/strong> and can now be found under the <strong>Settings<\/strong> section of your Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure portal.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What you can do in Account Throughput<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>From <strong>Account Throughput<\/strong> you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View your account\u2019s total provisioned throughput<\/li>\n<li>Set a custom throughput limit for cost control<\/li>\n<li>Keep your free-tier account safely within its included RU\/s allowance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Where to find it<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the Azure portal, open your Azure Cosmos DB account from the left navigation side bar\u2192 <strong>Settings \u2192 Account Throughput<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This update does not change how the feature works, only where you will find it and what it is called. It remains the same useful tool to help you manage your account\u2019s overall provisioned RU\/s more effectively.<\/p>\n<p><div  class=\"d-flex justify-content-left\"><a class=\"cta_button_link btn-primary mb-24\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cosmos-db\/limit-total-account-throughput\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Account Throughput<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10980\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage.jpg\" alt=\"actthroughputimage image\" width=\"1841\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage.jpg 1841w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage-1024x408.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/actthroughputimage-1536x612.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1841px) 100vw, 1841px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About Azure Cosmos DB<\/h3>\n<p>Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed and serverless distributed database for modern app development, with SLA-backed speed and availability, automatic and instant scalability, and support for open-source PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra. <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmos.azure.com\/try\/\">Try Azure Cosmos DB for free here.<\/a> To stay in the loop on Azure Cosmos DB updates, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzureCosmosDB\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AzureCosmosDBYouTube\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/azure-cosmos-db\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput. The \u201cCost Management\u201d section has been renamed to \u201cAccount Throughput\u201d and can now be found under the Settings section of your Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure portal. What you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133447,"featured_media":10978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13],"tags":[1958,1957,1959],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-core-sql-api","category-news","tag-account-throughput","tag-azure-portal","tag-cost-management"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We\u2019ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput. The \u201cCost Management\u201d section has been renamed to \u201cAccount Throughput\u201d and can now be found under the Settings section of your Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure portal. What you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}