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Creating Scheduled Exports in Azure China Portal

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In the Azure Portal, scheduled exports must be in one-month chunks and can go back up to a maximum of 395 days.

Exports enable you to create a recurring task that automatically exports your billing data to an Azure Blob Storage on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The exported data is in CSV format and contains all the cost and usage data.

You can export large amounts of data with exports from Cost Management and import it into Flexera One.

To export data in the Azure storage account for importing it into Flexera One for cost reporting purposes:

  1. Sign in to the Azure China portal.
  2. In the upper-left corner of the page, click the Show portal menu icon, and then click Cost Management + Billing.
  3. In the left pane, click Cost Management, and under the Settings section in the left pane, click Exports.
  4. Click Add to create a new billing export. The New export page opens.
  5. Add the required information in the Basics tab.
  6. From the Type of data dropdown list, select one of the following options.
    • Cost & Usage (Actual)- To export standard usage and purchase costs.
    • Cost & Usage (Amortized)- To export amortized costs for purchases like Azure reservations and Azure savings plan.
  7. Repeat the steps below for each export type.
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You must create two exports-one for each type.

  1. In the Export Name field, enter the name for your export.
  2. From the Dataset version dropdown list, select the dataset version. For Azure EA, only version 2020-01-01, 2021-01-01 and 2021-10-01 are supported. It is highly recommended to use the 2021-10-01 version.
  3. From the frequency dropdown list, select Daily export of month-to-date costsso that the latest data is aggregated from the previous daily reports. You can then specify more fields to define the date range in UTC format.
  4. Click Add and then click Next. The Destination tab is activated for you to define the export destination. Input information on the Destination tab.
  5. From the Storage type dropdown list, select the storage type. The default type is Azure blob storage.
  6. In the Destination and storage section, choose the Use existing or Create new option, and input the information of your Azure storage account subscription.
  7. From the Storage account dropdown list, select the storage account name or create a new one.
    • If you create a new storage account, choose an Azure region.
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If you are setting up a new storage account in the Azure portal, you must assign the Storage Blob Data Reader role to the storage account to access the blob data. For instructions, see Assigning Permission to Azure Storage Account.

  1. In the Container and Directory fields, input the storage container and directory path for the export file.
  2. If you want to split your exports into multiple smaller files, enable the File Partitioning option.
  3. This option is enabled by default. It is recommended to keep it enabled.
  4. Choose whether to enable the Overwrite data option. This option is enabled by default. When it's enabled, daily exports replace the previous day's file with an updated file.
  5. Click Next. The Review + create tab is activated.
  6. Finally, create the export URL to connect a Bill Connect in Flexera One. The URL should be in the following format.
https://<storage-account>.blob.core.chinacloudapi.cn/<container>/<directory>/<export-name>