{"id":31500,"date":"2024-02-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=31500"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:50:21","slug":"microsoft-cost-management-updates-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-cost-management-updates-january-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Cost Management updates\u2014January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you\u2019re a new student, or part of a thriving startup or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you\u2019re spending, where it\u2019s being spent, and how to plan. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/cost-management\/\">Microsoft Cost Management<\/a> comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Cost Management can help you better understand where you\u2019re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#billing-tags\">Billing Tags<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#exports-preview\">Exports (preview)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#pricing-updates-for-azure-com\">Pricing updates on Azure.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#help-shape-the-future-of-pricing-calculator\">Help shape the future of Pricing calculator<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#what-s-new-in-cost-management-labs\">What\u2019s new in Cost Management Labs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#new-ways-to-save-money-with-microsoft-cloud\">New ways to save money with Microsoft Cloud<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#new-videos-and-learning-opportunities\">New videos and learning opportunities<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"#documentation-updates\">Documentation updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s dig into the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"billing-tags\"><a><\/a>Billing tags<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tags are a great way to group and allocate costs based on different engineering departments, business units, and organizational hierarchies, for example. There are many tools available in Microsoft Azure to implement your tagging strategy for cost visibility (showback) and accountability (chargeback). You can create Azure policies to ensure that your Azure resources are tagged in a certain way, enable the tag inheritance feature in cost management to use subscription and resource group tags for cost reporting, and create cost allocation rules using tags to manage shared costs, among other actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re very pleased to announce one more capability that you can potentially use to implement your tagging strategy for your cost allocation needs. In addition to tagging Azure resources,&nbsp;<strong><em>you can now also tag billing profiles and invoice sections<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and use them for cost reporting and analysis by enabling&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-tag-inheritance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tag inheritance<\/a>&nbsp;at the billing profile level. If you already have tag inheritance enabled, any tag applied to billing profiles or invoice sections will automatically be inherited. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/billing-tags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more on the application of billing tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"exports-preview\">Exports (preview)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our year-end blog, I mentioned the opportunity to sign up for the much-improved Exports experience with access to more datasets including reservation recommendations, reservation transactions, reservation details, and price sheets. Now, you can directly enable the new functionality through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cost management labs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this preview and get access to additional datasets along with improved user experience and new functionality. With features like file partitioning and file overwriting you can also potentially save on your network and storage costs.&nbsp; We have also added support for FinOps open cost and usage specification (FOCUS) dataset which combines amortized and actual costs, eliminating the need to ingest and process multiple datasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, please refer to this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs#exports-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pricing-updates-for-azure-com\">Pricing updates for Azure.com<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a few months since we last shared an update on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our Azure pricing experiences<\/a>, and we\u2019re excited to tell you about the new pricing we\u2019ve launched. These enhancements aim to streamline your cost estimation process for Azure solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">We\u2019ve integrated Azure Savings Plan into the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/container-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Container Apps<\/a>&nbsp;service, both on its pricing page and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calculator<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/vm-selector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">virtual machines selector<\/a>&nbsp;tool now includes Azure Resource Manager (ARM)-based burstable virtual machines (VMs).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Our suite of AI-related services has seen numerous pricing updates. This includes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/openai-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service<\/a>&nbsp;(new \u201cwhisper\u201d speech model),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/content-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety<\/a>&nbsp;(jailbreak risk detection and protected material detection features),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/speech-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure AI Speech<\/a>&nbsp;(Avatar Text-to-Speech feature and enhanced add-on features for commitment tiers),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/computer-vision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure AI Vision<\/a>&nbsp;(&#8216;video retrieval&#8217; and &#8216;image retrieval&#8217; features), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure AI Search<\/a>&nbsp;(general availability of the Semantic Ranker feature).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">We\u2019ve launched new pages for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/hdinsightonaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure HDInsight on AKS<\/a>&nbsp;(preview),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/managed-ccf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework<\/a>&nbsp;(as a pricing page and as a calculator service),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/iot-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Fabric<\/a>&nbsp;(as a calculator service), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/app-service\/windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure IoT Operations<\/a>&nbsp;(pricing page for preview). We\u2019ve also revamped several pages for improved user experience, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/language-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure AI Vision<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/language-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure AI Language<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/app-service\/windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure App Service<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/elastic-san\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Electric SAN<\/a>\u2019s pricing calculator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">We\u2019ve updated the pricing of recently generally available services and features in Azure, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/chaos-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance<\/a>&nbsp;feature,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/communication-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Communication<\/a>\u2019s Job router feature, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/storage\/blobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Blob Storage<\/a>\u2019s Cold tier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Many other services have seen updates in features and pricing, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/virtual-machines\/linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cosmos-db\/autoscale-provisioned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/azure-vmware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure VM Ware Solution<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/microsoft-fabric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Fabric<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/openshift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/azure-sql-database\/single\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure SQL Database<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/azure-sql-managed-instance\/single\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/defender-for-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Defender for Cloud<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/databricks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Databricks<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/mysql\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/backup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Backup<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/managed-grafana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Managed Grafana<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/storage\/blobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">block Microsoft Azure Blob Storage<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/container-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Container Apps<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/azure-update-management-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Update Manager<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/business\/microsoft-entra-pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Active Directory<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/notification-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure Notification Hubs<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/app-configuration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure App Configuration<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We continue to strive for improvements in our pricing tools to make them more accessible and user-friendly. We hope these changes assist you in estimating costs for your Azure Solutions. Your feedback and suggestions for future improvements are always welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"help-shape-the-future-of-pricing-calculator\"><a><\/a><a><\/a><a><\/a>Help shape the future of Pricing calculator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/PricingvNext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pricing calculator<\/a>&nbsp;is an important tool for you to estimate costs of your Azure resources and plan your cloud spend. We would love to hear from you as we create new designs for the calculator to improve your experience. Please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/PricingvNext\">share your feedback in this study<\/a>&nbsp;and feel free to share within your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an unmoderated study and should take less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-s-new-in-cost-management-labs\">What\u2019s new in Cost Management Labs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-cost-management-updates-july-2019?WT.mc_id=acm-micflan#labs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cost Management Labs<\/a>, you get a sneak peek at what\u2019s coming in Cost Management and can engage directly with us to share feedback and help us better understand how you use the service so we can deliver more tuned and optimized experiences. Here are a few features you can see in Cost Management Labs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>New<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs?wt.mc_id=micflan_cmupdates_2022-10%22%20%5Cl%20%22resourceparent%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank#exports-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exports (preview)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mentioned above, use Exports (preview) for additional datasets and functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs#currency-switcher-in-cost-analysis-smart-views\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Currency selection in Cost analysis smart views<\/a>\u202f&nbsp;<br>View your non-USD charges in USD or switch between the currencies in which you have charges to view the total cost for that currency only. To change currency, select Customize at the top of the view and select the currency you would like to apply. Currency selection is not applicable to those with only USD charges. Currency selection is enabled by default in Cost Management Labs. If not enabled for you, enable currency selection from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/trypreview%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try preview menu<\/a>.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs%22%20\/l%20%22newmenu%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streamlined Cost Management menu<\/a>&nbsp;<br>Organize Cost Management tools into related sections for reporting, monitoring, optimization, and configuration settings. You can enable this option from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/trypreview%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try preview menu<\/a>.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs%22%20\/l%20%22recommendationsview%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recommendations view<\/a>\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<br>View a summary of cost recommendations that help you optimize your Azure resources in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costanalysis\/preview%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cost analysis preview<\/a>. You can opt in using the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/trypreview%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try preview menu<\/a>.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs?wt.mc_id=micflan_cmupdates_2022-10%22%20\\l%20%22cav3forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forecast in Cost analysis smart views&nbsp;<br><\/a>Show your forecast cost for the period at the top of Cost analysis preview. You can opt in using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/trypreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try preview<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs?wt.mc_id=micflan_cmupdates_2022-10%22%20\\l%20%22resourceparent%22%20\\t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Group related resources in Cost analysis smart views<\/a>\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<br>Group related resources, like disks under virtual machines or web apps under App Service plans, by adding a \u201ccm-resource-parent\u201d tag to the child resources with a value of the parent resource ID.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs?wt.mc_id=micflan_cmupdates_2022-10%22%20\\l%20%22chartsfeature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charts in Cost analysis smart views&nbsp;<br><\/a>View your daily or monthly cost over time in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costanalysis\/preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cost analysis smart views<\/a>. You can opt in using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/trypreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try preview<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/costs\/enable-preview-features-cost-management-labs?wt.mc_id=micflan_cmupdates_2022-10%22%20\\l%20%22resourceessentials%22%20\\t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View cost for your resources<\/a>&nbsp;<br>The cost for your resources is one click away from the resource overview in the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/preview.portal.azure.com\/%22%20\/t%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preview por<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/preview.portal.azure.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tal<\/a>. Just click\u202fView cost\u202fto quickly jump to the cost of that resource.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, that\u2019s not all. Every change in Cost Management is available in Cost Management Labs a week before it\u2019s in the full Azure portal or Microsoft 365 admin center. We\u2019re eager to hear your thoughts and understand what you\u2019d like to see next. What are you waiting for? Try&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/costmgmt\/labs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cost Management Labs<\/a>&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-ways-to-save-money-with-microsoft-cloud\">New ways to save money with Microsoft Cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots of cost management improvements over the last month! 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