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Michael Flanakin

Michael Flanakin

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

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Published • 8 min read

How Microsoft Cloud is embracing FinOps practitioners 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

Learn how Microsoft is embracing FinOps practitioners and enabling organizations to drive business value through FinOps education, faster analytics, a new FinOps toolkit open source project, and improvements to help you identify and monitor your cost saving opportunities.

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Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2023 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

May is all about cost optimization! From customizable right-sizing recommendations in Advisor to many updates to pricing experiences and the addition of cost recommendations in Azure Resource Graph for Azure Gov and Azure China clouds. Throw in 3 updated previews in Cost analysis, 6 new/updated ways to save, and a bunch of videos and docs and you’ve got a lot of catching up to do! Enjoy!

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Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2023 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

January is always exciting, and this year is no different with the general availability of EA account management for indirect customers, recent and pinned views in the Cost analysis preview, 3 new preview features, 7 new ways to save, 1 video, and 6 doc updates.

Published • 11 min read

Microsoft Cost Management 2022 year in review 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

In some ways, 2022 is what we expected out of 2021. Perhaps it’s better late than never, but the world is beginning to get back to normal—albeit a new normal where hybrid work is a default rather than an exception for many of us. In this new world, demands on our time have increased exponentially, making it more critical than ever to focus on maximizing value, return on investment, and cloud efficiencies. And that’s exactly what you saw as we doubled down on savings opportunities in 2022.

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Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

What better way to go into the holiday season than with a long-awaited, major new preview for Cost Management tag inheritance. Add new cost recommendations for VM scale sets and 3 new preview features in the Cost analysis preview on top of 8 new and updated offers to help you save, 76 cost-related sessions from Ignite, and 7 key doc updates and there’s quite a bit to sink your teeth into from November.

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Microsoft Cost Management updates—October 2022 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

Get ready to amp up your savings! October is all about cost optimization with Azure savings plans—a more flexible way to save by pre-committing to hourly usage—the GA of the Azure Advisor score, Azure Migrate improvements, automation with Microsoft Syntex and Power Platform, and 9 other new or updated offers to help you save. You’ll also learn how to group related AVD costs with 2 new videos and see 2 doc updates.