Are you constantly seeking innovative approaches to uncover insights into your financial challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you pinpoint areas of inefficiency, curb wasteful expenditure, and optimize costs to achieve more while conserving resources?
Regardless of your organisational stage, understanding where every penny goes is crucial to making informed decisions about budgeting and planning for the future. No individual requires a surprise when it comes to an invoice, which is precisely where this system excels.
Are you constantly seeking innovative strategies to gain deeper insights into your business obstacles and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you identify and rectify inefficient spending habits, streamline costs, and ultimately achieve more with fewer resources? Recent enhancements and updates include:
Before diving into specifics, credit is due to the FinOps foundation for successfully hosting their event in San Diego, California last month. Microsoft continued its platinum sponsorship streak, marking a second consecutive year of support. Our team members thrived on building meaningful connections with clients, gaining valuable insights into their financial operations, and applying that knowledge to drive success. We also showcased our vision for streamlining FinOps with AI, as demonstrated in a concise video presentation—
Join me as we dive into our FinOps X 2024 updates, a discussion with my colleague, Michael Flanakin, also a member of the FinOps Technical Advisory Council.
The FinOps community previously announced the definitive availability of this feature for June 2024. Here’s a possible improvement: You can assess the updated schema alongside its deviations from the previous model, thereby gaining valuable insights into the changes. Let’s proceed to assist in helping power so that you can export a preview model for the FOCUS dataset.
To access information on datasets supported for export purposes and gain insight into their performance, consult.
You would have had the ability to forecast costs for Azure companies by using their pricing calculator, thereby allowing you to better plan and manage your expenses. We’re thrilled to introduce the new estimation capability within the Azure portal itself. With the introduction of advanced technology, engineers can now quickly obtain a detailed breakdown of their estimated digital machine (VM) costs prior to deployment, allowing for seamless modifications as needed. This cutting-edge expertise is currently available exclusively for Virtual Machines (VMs) running on pay-as-you-go subscription models, with plans to expand its reach in the future. By equipping engineers with comprehensive pricing insights seamlessly integrated into their workflow, they can confidently make informed decisions about budgeting and resource allocation, fostering a culture of responsibility.
We previously discussed this topic in our November 2023 blog post. It’s well understood how crucial it is to gain insight into the detailed costs of running your clusters. We’ve simplified the process of entering price views by adding a straightforward entry point directly on the cluster webpage. For engineers and administrators already logged into the cluster webpage, configuring settings or monitoring performance, rapid access to price information is now conveniently available.
We’ve worked tirelessly to refine our offerings, and we’re eager to share the updates with you. These adjustments will help simplify the process of estimating your option prices.
- We have further broadened the reach of our global footprint by introducing pricing support for new Azure regions, including Spain Central and Mexico Central.
- Azure AI has undergone significant updates, including pricing enhancements for Primary Video Indexing Evaluation, the rollout of GPT-4 models, and improved Super Tuning models for computer vision. Additionally, the company is deprecating its S2 to S4 quantity low-cost tiers, while introducing standard quick transcription and video dubbing features in preview for content creators.
- To reflect the latest changes in our pricing structure, we’ve conducted a thorough review of our policies to ensure that all information is accurate and up-to-date.
We are committed to refining our pricing tools, striving to render them more intuitive and easily navigable for all users. We believe that these adjustments will prove valuable in helping you accurately estimate prices for your Azure options. What potential opportunities are there to further develop and refine our offerings?
There are a few documentation updates that warrant your attention.
Do you wish to remain vigilant in monitoring every single modification to our documentation? The Value Administration and Billing documentation change history within the system will now reflect accurate timestamps of all changes made to billing records. If you notice anything missing, select the top of the document and submit a prompt pull request. There’s no point in even trying to debug this code. We warmly acknowledge and celebrate every single contribution.
Several significant enhancements were released in the past month alone. Don’t neglect to take a moment to review the entirety of the situation? As we continually strive to improve our services, we appreciate your ongoing feedback and suggestions, which inform our targeted enhancements.
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