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Monitoring your reservation and Marketplace purchases with Budgets
Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now include your reservation and Marketplace purchases
March 2020
101 services at FedRAMP High as Azure Government continues expanding capacity
21 new services added to FedRAMP High ATO, delivering on continued commitment to accelerating compliance for government customers
February 2020
Drill into the costs for your resources
Updated Cost by resource view in Cost Analysis. This improves drilldown experience to view costs accruing for each resource at a meter level.
January 2020
Azure Cost Management and billing updates—January 2020
Azure Cost Management can help you better understand where you are accruing costs in the cloud, identify and help prevent bad spending patterns and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements and updates based on your feedback.
December 2019
Azure Cost Management updates—November 2019
New updates to Azure Cost Management help you manage costs for cloud solution provider (CSP) subscriptions, build better dashboards by customising tile names, save money with Azure reservations for 16 different services, along with additional enhancements.
November 2019
Updates to Azure Cost Management—October 2019
New updates to Azure Cost Management help you better understand what you are spending, where you are spending it and how to optimise and plan for the future.
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It is a collection of tools, guidance and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.
October 2019
Cost Management features available as of October 2019
Here are the Cost Management features that are generally available as of October 2019.
Cost Management Preview Features October 2019
Please find a table below outlining the Cost Management features that are currently in preview.
September 2019
Azure Cost Management updates—July 2019
We are always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns and optimise costs to empower you to do more with less. Read about what is new in Azure Cost Management Labs, learn about recent updates including how to create targeted budgets with filters and forecast costs and watch new videos.
August 2019
It’s now easier to share customised views in Azure Cost Management
There is a new, more convenient way to share customized views in Azure Cost Management—directly from cost analysis.
Azure Cost Management – Save and share customised views
Customising a view in Azure Cost Management is easy. Pick the date range you need, group the data to see a breakdown, choose the right visualisation and you are good to go. See how to pin your view to a dashboard, share links, and to save and share customised views.
New budgets creation experience is now available
We are excited to announce the release of a new budgets creation experience for all customers.
Azure Cost Management updates—July 2019
Learn about how Azure Cost Management can help you achieve your goals. See what's coming for partners, learn about Marketplace usage for pay-as-you-go subscriptions, Cost Management Labs, saving and sharing views within cost analysis, and other updates.
July 2019
Azure marketplace charges are now available in Azure Cost Management for Pay-As-You-Go customers!
We are excited to announce a preview release of Azure marketplace charges within our Cost Analysis tool for Pay-As-You-Go customers. As a part of this preview you can now analyse your marketplace charges alongside your Azure service charges within Cost Analysis and reconcile your Azure marketplace invoice using both Cost Analysis and a new usage csv download API.
Azure Resource Graph is now generally available
Azure Resource Graph, which enables exploration of your resources at scale, is now generally available for all Azure customers.
May 2019
Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview
Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management
February 2019
Azure Cost Management is now generally available for EA customers
Azure Cost Management is now generally available for EA customers
Azure Cost Management preview for Azure Government
Announcing Azure Cost Management preview for Azure Government.
Azure Cost Management preview for pay-as-you-go
Azure Cost Management for pay-as-you-go is now in preview.
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