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Michael Flanakin

Michael Flanakin

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

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Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022 

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 

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.

Published • 6 min read

Microsoft Cost Management updates – July 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.

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Microsoft Cost Management updates – 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!