Tuesday, 2 August 2022
July brought a new, generally available Cost Details API for on-demand data downloads. If you use cost APIs for automation or integration, you'll want to check that out! We also added three new preview features, four new ways to save, and five documentation updates.
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
June is all about staying informed! From viewing cost on the go from the Azure mobile app to a new API for cost alerts and an updated schema for budget alerts. Add a new tutorials experience in the portal, 10 new ways to save, 1 video, and 8 doc updates and you've got yourself a lot of catching up to do!
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
May introduces Microsoft Cost Management, anomaly detection alerts, improved cost monitoring for Azure Lab Services, and more.
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
As April comes to a close, you'll find new summarized totals in the cost analysis preview, the ability to download Azure prices as a ZIP file, six new and updated previews, a whopping 17 new ways to save, and a few new videos and doc updates.
Monday, 11 April 2022
Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help unlock cost savings for your Azure workloads by automatically scaling up and down the resources in use to better align capacity to demand. Not only does it utilize cloud elasticity by paying for capacity only when you need it, you can also reduce the need for an operator to continually monitor the performance of a system and make decisions about adding or removing resources.
Monday, 11 April 2022
For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your workload costs by up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices. Azure Reservations can be obtained by committing to one-year or three-year plans for virtual machines, Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, SQL Database compute capacity, Azure Cosmos DB throughput, and other Azure resources.
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The Enterprise Agreement billing account management experience in the Azure portal is now generally available, there are two new preview features (including anomaly alerts), nine new and updated offers to save money on Azure, and four documentation updates.
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
February expanded the anomaly detection preview to all subscriptions, introduced two new GA offers to save money, two new learning resources, and one documentation update.
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
2022 starts out strong with Cost Management in the Microsoft 365 admin center and a new multitasking experience in the cost analysis preview on top of 7 new ways to save, 6 new videos, and 4 documentation updates.
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Are you still hesitating to move some or all your workloads to the cloud due to the added cost? One of the easiest ways to significantly lower your cost of ownership is by using a special licensing offer called Azure Hybrid Benefit.