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RSS feedMarch 2021
Generally available: Monitor your spending through forecasted cost alerts with Azure Cost Management and Billing
Prevent cost overruns with Azure budget alerts on forecasted costs
February 2021
Azure Cost Management now available for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions
Azure Cost Management capabilities to view and analyze costs, be notified when exceeding cost thresholds using budgets, and export usage and charges data is now supported for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions.
Public preview: Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation now available in Azure Government
Simplify your cost reporting in Azure government using Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation.
October 2020
Learn how to manage and optimize your Azure costs with our guided learning modules
Stay up to date on your cost management needs with five new courses
September 2020
Allocate shared costs with Azure Cost Management + Billing
Azure Cost Management + Billing cost allocation is now in public preview.
Public Preview - Get Retail Rates for all Azure Products/Services
An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices for all Azure Products/Services (including Reserved Instances).
Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management
Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management is now Generally Available.
June 2020
Budgets in Cost Management now accounts threshold edits and alert limits above 100%
Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now re-fire alerts for the same period after you edit a budget. Additionally, now Budgets will also allow you to set a threshold above 100%
April 2020
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're 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 customizing 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're spending, where you’re spending it, and how to optimize 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’s 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 – August 2019
Azure Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Read about what's 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 customized views in Azure Cost Management
There’s a new, more convenient way to share customized views in Azure Cost Management—directly from cost analysis.
Azure Cost Management – Save and share customized views
Customizing a view in Azure Cost Management is easy. Pick the date range you need, group the data to see a breakdown, choose the right visualization, and you're good to go. See how to pin your view to a dashboard, share links, and to save and share customized views.
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