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Generally Available: AKS cost views
The Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes namespaces cost views are now generally available in Cost analysis within Azure portal. You can view the aggregated costs for all your AKS clusters and namespaces across a subscription and drill down into infrastructure and namespaces costs of a cluster.
March 2024
Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: April 01, 2025
The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.
November 2023
Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.
All records in cost and usage file will now match the part numbers in an invoice for EA customers. This will allow leveraging the part number to match invoice and cost details data. Please note that when comparing charges, refunds for purchases done in past billing periods should be excluded.
Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.
All records in cost and usage file will now match the part numbers in an invoice for EA customers. This will allow leveraging the part number to match invoice and cost details data. Please note that when comparing charges, refunds for purchases done in past billing periods should be excluded.
Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
Sign up for an early preview of Cost Management exports that provide cost data aligned to the open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
September 2023
Generally available: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
You can export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall.
August 2023
Preview: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
May 2023
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
April 2023
General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.
January 2023
Generally available: Indirect 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 indirect enterprise agreement customers)
December 2022
Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management
Use tag inheritance preview to automatically apply subscription and resource group tags to child resource usage records.
October 2022
General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.
July 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.
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