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RSS feedJuly 2022
General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers
Target availability: Q3 2022
Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers.
May 2022
Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema
Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema.
Public preview: Automate scheduled emails of your saved cost views via API
Automate the creation and management of Azure Cost Management scheduled emails with the ScheduledActions API.
March 2022
Public preview: Schedule automated emails of your saved cost views
Subscribe to daily, weekly, or monthly updates of your saved cost views in Azure Cost Management to stay informed about changes in cost.
February 2022
Generally available: Direct enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for direct enterprise agreement customers on commercial cloud).
Public preview: Cost Management anomaly detection for subscriptions
Azure Cost Management offers subscription cost anomaly detection within the cost analysis preview to raise awareness and help identify unexpected changes in cost.
In development: Price sheet download as a zip file
Price sheet download experience update for using Azure in a small business environment.
January 2022
Public preview: Multitasking in the cost analysis preview
Azure Cost Management has a new tabbed experience to streamline analysis as you drill into costs.
September 2021
Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group.
March 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.
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