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 plan. Nobody wants a astonishment erstwhile it comes to the bill, and this is wherever Cost Management comes in. 

We’re ever looking for ways to larn much astir your challenges and however 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 based connected your feedback: 

• Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) costs
• Auto renewal of Azure Reservations 
• Connector for AWS—Retirement date: March 31, 2025 
• Pricing updates connected Azure.com 
• Cost Management Labs 
• New ways to prevention wealth successful the Microsoft Cloud 
• New videos and learning opportunities 
• Documentation updates 

Let’s excavation into the details. 

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) costs 

Cost views

I americium pleased to stock that the AKS outgo views are present mostly disposable successful Cost analysis. This was officially announced astatine Kubecon successful Paris held past month. We announced the preview of these views successful November 2023 astatine Ignite. 

AKS users ever had visibility into the infrastructure costs of moving their clusters. With these caller views, they besides get visibility into the costs of namespaces moving successful their clusters and an aggregated presumption of clump costs crossed their subscription. With these further insights, users tin allocate and optimize their AKS costs much efficiently, maximizing the benefits of moving their workloads connected shared infrastructure. To alteration these views, users indispensable instal the outgo investigation add-on connected their clusters.  

Figure 1: Kubernetes clusters view 

Figure 2: Kubernetes namespaces view

Please notation to the 2 articles beneath for much information: 

• Azure Kubernetes Service outgo investigation – Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Learn 
• View Kubernetes costs (Preview) – Cost Management | Microsoft Learn 

Fleet workload placement

An further announcement from Kubecon that I privation to item is the hold of fleet workload placement to docket workloads to clusters based connected caller heuristics specified arsenic outgo and availability of resources. For much information, delight notation to “Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override.”  

Auto renewal of Azure Reservations 

Azure Reservations tin importantly trim your assets costs by up to 72% from pay-as-you-go prices. To simplify the absorption of reservations and to proceed getting preservation discounts, you tin present acceptable up auto-renewal of your reservations at the clip of purchase. Please enactment that the mounting is turned disconnected by default, truthful marque definite to crook it connected earlier your preservation acquisition expires. To larn more, notation to “Automatically renew Azure reservations – Cost Management | Microsoft Learn.”

Connector for Amazon Web Services (AWS)—Retirement date: March 31, 2025  

Please enactment that we volition beryllium retiring the connector for AWS successful Cost Management connected March31, 2025. You volition not person entree to AWS information done the API oregon portal beyond the status date, you volition proceed to person entree to information that you stored successful your S3 bucket successful the AWS console. To hole for the status date, we person removed the quality to adhd a caller connector from Cost Management. We promote you to look astatine alternate solutions to entree your AWS costs. For much information, delight notation to “Support for Connector for AWS successful Cost Management is ending connected 31 March 2025.” 

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:

• Azure savings plan has present been extended to Microsoft Azure Spring apps, offering much flexibility and outgo optimization connected some the pricing leafage and calculator. 
• We’ve added a calculator introduction for Azure Kubernetes Services Edge Essentials. 
• We’ve added pricing for galore caller offers connected Microsoft Azure, including Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (with the wide availability (GA) of Application Gateway for Containers), caller Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines bid (Dasv6, Easv6, and Fasv6 – each successful preview), Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (added virtual instrumentality (VM) families and improved hunt acquisition connected Pricing Calculator), Microsoft Azure SQL Database (HA Replica Pricing to elastic pools, Hyperscale), Microsoft Azure Databricks (“Model Training” workload for premium-tier workspaces), Microsoft Azure Managed Grafana (Standard and Essential program types added to pricing calculator), Microsoft Azure Backup (pricing for Enhanced Policy type), Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core (new offers for RAN Overage and Devices Overage to some leafage and calculator). 

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!

Cost Management Labs 

With Cost Management Labs, you get a sneak peek astatine what’s coming successful Cost Management and tin prosecute straight with america to stock feedback and assistance america amended recognize however you usage the service, truthful we tin present much tuned and optimized experiences. Here are a fewer features you tin spot successful Cost Management Labs:  

•  Currency enactment successful Cost investigation astute views. View your non-USD charges successful USD oregon power betwixt the currencies you person charges successful to presumption the full outgo for that currency only. To alteration currency, prime “Customize” astatine the apical of the presumption and prime the currency you would similar to apply. Currency enactment is not applicable to those with lone USD charges. Currency enactment is enabled by default successful Labs.   
•  Streamlined Cost Management menu. Organize Cost Management tools into related sections for reporting, monitoring, optimization, and configuration settings.   
• Recent and pinned views successful the outgo investigation preview. Show each classical and astute views successful outgo investigation and streamline navigation by prioritizing precocious utilized and pinned views.   
• Forecast successful Cost investigation astute views. Show your forecast outgo for the play astatine the apical of Cost investigation preview.   
• Charts successful Cost investigation astute views. View your regular oregon monthly outgo implicit clip successful Cost investigation astute views.   
• Open configuration items successful the menu. Experimental enactment to amusement the selected configuration surface arsenic a nested paper point successful the Cost Management menu. Please stock feedback.  

New ways to prevention wealth successful the Microsoft Cloud 

Here are a mates of important updates for you to reappraisal that tin assistance trim costs:

• “Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enactment for 5K Node bounds by default for modular tier clusters” 
• “Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework appraisal connected Azure Advisor” 

New videos and learning opportunities 

Check retired “Leverage anomaly absorption processes with Microsoft Cost Management”, a large video for managing anomalies and reservations. You tin besides travel the Cost Management YouTube channel to enactment successful the loop with caller videos arsenic they’re released and fto america cognize what you’d similar to spot next. Want a much guided experience? Start with ”Control Azure spending and negociate bills with Microsoft Cost Management.”

Refer to the blog post: Combine FinOps champion practices and Microsoft tools to streamline and optimize your workloads about utilizing Microsoft tools for FinOps champion practices.

Documentation updates  

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

• New: “Azure Hybrid Benefit documentation”
• Update: “Transfer Azure Enterprise enrollment accounts and subscriptions”
• Update: Azure EA pricing – Cost Management
• Update: Review your Azure Enterprise Agreement bill
• Update: Understand usage details fields
• Update: “Organize your costs by customizing your billing account”

Want to support an oculus connected each documentation updates? Check retired the Cost Management and Billing documentation alteration history successful 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 Cost Management updates. We’re ever listening and making changeless improvements based connected your feedback, truthful delight support the feedback coming. 

Best wishes, 

Cost Management team 

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