Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2024

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Whether you’re a caller student, a thriving startup, oregon the largest enterprise, you person fiscal constraints, and you request to cognize what you’re spending, wherever it’s being spent, and however to program for the future. Nobody wants a astonishment erstwhile it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. 

We’re ever looking for ways to larn much astir your challenges and however Microsoft Cost Management tin assistance you amended recognize wherever you’re accruing costs successful the cloud, place and forestall atrocious spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to bash much with less. Here are a fewer of the latest improvements and updates. 

Before we excavation into details, kudos to the FinOps instauration for successfully hosting FinOps X 2024 successful San Diego, California past month. Microsoft participated arsenic a platinum sponsor for a 2nd consecutive year. Our squad members enjoyed connecting with customers and getting insights into their FinOps practice. We besides shared our imaginativeness of simplifying FinOps done AI, demonstrated successful this abbreviated video—Bring your FinOps signifier into the epoch of AI.

For each our updates from FinOps X 2024, notation to the blog post by my colleague, Michael Flanakin, who besides serves successful the FinOps Technical Advisory Council. 

FOCUS 1.0 enactment successful exports 

As you whitethorn already know, the FinOps instauration announced the wide availability of the FinOps Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) Version 1 successful June 2024. We are thrilled to denote that you tin get the recently released mentation done exports acquisition successful the Microsoft Azure portal oregon the REST API. You tin reappraisal the updated schema and the differences from the erstwhile mentation successful this Microsoft Learn article. We volition proceed to enactment the quality for you to export the preview mentation of the FOCUS dataset.

For each the datasets supported done exports and to larn much astir the functionality, notation to our documentation.

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Cost paper successful Azure portal 

You person ever had the quality to estimation costs for Azure services utilizing the pricing calculator truthful that you tin amended program your expenses. Now, we are excited to denote the estimation capableness wrong the Azure portal itself. Engineers present tin rapidly get a breakdown of their estimated virtual instrumentality (VM) costs earlier deploying them and set arsenic needed. This caller acquisition is presently disposable lone for VMs moving connected pay-as-you-go subscriptions and volition beryllium expanded successful the future. Empowering engineers with outgo information without disrupting their workflow enables them to marque the close decisions for managing their spending and drives accountability.

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Kubernetes outgo views (new introduction point) 

I had spoken astir the Azure Kubernetes Service outgo views successful our November 2023 blog post. We cognize however important it is for you to get visibility into the granular costs of moving your clusters. To marque it adjacent easier to entree these outgo views, we person added an introduction constituent to the clump leafage itself. Engineers and admins who are already connected the clump leafage perchance making configuration changes oregon conscionable monitoring their cluster, tin present rapidly notation the costs arsenic well.

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Pricing updates connected Azure.com

We’ve been moving hard to marque immoderate changes to our Azure pricing experiences, and we’re excited to stock them with you. These changes volition assistance marque it easier for you to estimation the costs of your solutions. 

  • We’ve expanded our planetary scope with pricing enactment for caller Azure regions, including Spain Central and Mexico Central. 
  • Azure AI has seen important updates with pricing enactment for Basic Video Indexing Analysis for Azure AI Video Indexer, caller GPT-4o models and improved Fine Tuning models for Azure OpenAI Service, the deprecation of S2 to S4 measurement discount tiers for Azure AI Translator, and the instauration of modular accelerated transcription and video dubbing, some successful preview, for Azure AI Speech.  
  • We’ve made broad updates to our pricing models to bespeak the latest offerings and guarantee you person the astir close information, including changes to

We’re perpetually moving to amended our pricing tools and marque them much accessible and user-friendly. We anticipation you find these changes adjuvant successful estimating the costs for your Azure solutions. If you person immoderate feedback oregon suggestions for aboriginal improvements, delight fto america know! 

New ways to prevention wealth successful the Microsoft Cloud 

Documentation updates 

Here are a fewer documentation updates you mightiness beryllium funny in: 

Want to support an oculus connected each documentation updates? Check retired the Cost Management and Billing documentation alteration history in the azure-docs repository connected GitHub. If you spot thing missing, select Edit at the apical of the papers and taxable a speedy propulsion request. You tin besides taxable a GitHub issue. We invited and admit each contributions! 

What’s next? 

These are conscionable a fewer of the large updates from past month. Don’t hide to cheque retired the previous Microsoft Cost Management updates. We’re ever listening and making changeless improvements based connected your feedback, truthful delight support the feedback coming.  

Follow @MSCostMgmt on X and subscribe to the Microsoft Cost Management YouTube channel for updates, tips, and tricks.

The station Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2024 appeared archetypal connected Microsoft Azure Blog.

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