At Microsoft Ignite, we announced cardinal merchandise updates to alteration your FinOps journey.

As you whitethorn know, November is the period for Microsoft’s largest lawsuit and spouse event—Microsoft Ignite. This year, we successful the Cost absorption team, announced cardinal merchandise updates astatine this lawsuit to alteration your FinOps journey. Below, you’ll find a summary of these enhancements. We invitation you to research and instrumentality afloat vantage of these caller features!

• Exports to Microsoft Fabric
• Azure OpenAI costs (New presumption and Copilot support)
• Azure Copilot to Cost analysis
• New ways to prevention wealth with Microsoft Cloud
• Documentation updates

Let’s excavation into the details.

Exports to Microsoft Fabric

Exports is simply a large mode to get your costs and terms datasets for your storage, investigation and reporting needs. It is precise casual to acceptable up and you tin configure it to tally astatine a recurring docket with nary manual intervention. You tin rapidly acceptable it up utilizing the Azure portal oregon done the API. This twelvemonth we person made aggregate enhancements to our exports solution including enactment for further datasets, enactment for parquet format and compression. We conscionable added 1 much to this list! At Ignite, we announced limited availability of our Exports to Fabric connector OneLake. With this caller feature, you tin export your costs and terms datasets straight to Microsoft Fabric, redeeming you clip and effort to ingest outgo information into Fabric from your retention account.

Please enactment that this diagnostic is not mostly disposable yet. You tin motion up for america to alteration this functionality for your relationship by submitting this form. Our squad volition get backmost to you via email with applicable instructions successful the January timeframe.

With Microsoft Fabric, you get a unified level for your information storage, analysis, and reporting needs. You tin harvester information from aggregate sources and leverage Fabric’s integrated Power BI to make reporting dashboards for your concern needs. Additionally, you tin usage earthy connection prompts to summation insights into your information and for predictive analytics. Learn much astir Fabric and its’ almighty capabilities.

Azure OpenAI Service costs

Azure OpenAI view

In our past blog, I wrote astir however casual it is to negociate your Azure OpenAI Service costs successful Cost analysis. You tin analyze costs for antithetic clip periods, monitor costs utilizing scheduled emails and budgets, and optimize your costs by leveraging Azure OpenAI provisioned reservations.

To marque it adjacent easier for you to analyse your Azure OpenAI costs, we are thrilled to denote the availability of a caller built-in view: Azure OpenAI. In this caller view, you tin presumption the costs of moving each your models for antithetic clip periods (actual and amortized both). This presumption besides includes the costs for preservation purchases if the purchasing subscription is nether the selected scope.

You tin entree this presumption successful Cost investigation nether All Views -> Smart Views arsenic shown successful the screenshot below:

Copilot simulation for Azure OpenAI Service

As you already know, Copilot is simply a large instrumentality for getting your cost-related queries answered utilizing earthy language. As an example, you tin inquire Copilot your costs for moving Azure OpenAI deployments arsenic shown successful the punctual below:

Now, we person extended our Copilot capabilities to adjacent assistance you estimate costs for your Azure OpenAI token-based deployments. An illustration punctual is included below:

This is conscionable the beginning, we volition proceed to marque enhancements to enactment much simulation scenarios making it easier for you to estimation and hence program for your Azure spend.

As always, you tin proceed to usage the pricing calculator for each your estimation needs including Azure OpenAI.

Azure Copilot to Cost analysis

We person made an breathtaking update to your Copilot acquisition for Cost Management by integrating Cost analysis into the Copilot generated responses. In astir of the responses, you volition announcement a “View successful Cost analysis” fastener which takes you to the customized Cost investigation presumption based connected your prompt. This enables you to instrumentality further enactment successful Cost investigation similar analyzing outgo with antithetic parameters, sharing the presumption with others successful your team, getting email alerts, and more.

To commencement utilizing this feature, simply inquire your cost-related question similar you would usually do. There is nary other configuration needed. As an example:

Clicking connected the “View successful Cost Analysis” fastener from the effect volition unfastened a caller Cost investigation presumption grouped by work sanction for October 2024. You tin stay focused connected your task successful manus portion Copilot does the required configurations for you!

If you inactive haven’t fixed Copilot successful Azure a effort for your cost-related questions, I powerfully promote you to effort immoderate illustration prompts we person for you to get started.

New ways to prevention wealth successful the Microsoft Cloud

Here are immoderate offers that tin perchance assistance you trim costs:

• Storage relationship default egress bounds summation to 200 gbps.
• Azure backup reduced protected lawsuit fees hana backup.
• Linux VM promotional offer.
• Autoscale successful vCore based Azure Cosmos DB for MangoDB (Preview).
• Extended information updates enabled by Azure Arc. 
• New capabilities to assistance Migration and Hybrid Cloud Management (Preview).

Documentation updates

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

• Update: Save costs with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations.
• Update: Understand however the Red Hat Linux Enterprise bundle preservation program discount is applied for Azure.
• New: Save costs with reservations for Nutanix Cloud Clusters connected Azure BareMetal infrastructure.

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.