FinOps

This is an exciting month for organizations using Azure reservations – you can now scope your reservations to a management group for even more savings.

As August comes to a close, you’ll find new download options available from the cost analysis preview and quick access to common subscription and resource group operations in Configuration.

We’re back with the usuals this month with an improved management experience, 9 new ways to save money with Azure, 3 videos, and 5 documentation updates. Stay tuned for even more next month!

June brings amortization to the cost analysis preview, says goodbye to Cloudyn, and welcomes many new ways to optimize your costs, from 5 new generally available offers and 5 new previews to 3 lower prices and 3 expanded free offers.

May brings expanded coverage of two popular features: Cost allocation is now supported in all usage APIs and downloads and management group exports are now available in Azure Government.

April builds on top of past releases. From an expansion of the Retail Prices API to cover non-USD currencies to a new custom date picker based on your feedback.

March is an exciting month! If you need to control costs and avoid projected overages, you’ll want to check out changes to Cost Management budgets.

Forecasted cost alerts within budgets in Azure Cost Management and Billing is now generally available. Forecasted cost alerts provide advanced notification that your spending trends are likely to exceed your allocated budget.

February brings two big releases for Azure Government—general availability support for Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions and the cost allocation preview.

Welcome to 2021: A year full of promise! The year starts out strong with two commonly requested features: a built-in view of cost broken down by resource group and remembering the last-used scope when opening Cost Management in the Azure portal.

2020 wasn’t the year we signed up for, but was chock full nonetheless.

Today’s challenging economic climate has driven many IT organizations to launch cost optimization initiatives. If you’re participating in one such initiative, you’ve discovered that cloud cost management is a journey, with many factors to consider and steps to take to improve cloud spending behaviors.