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Microsoft Cost Management adds support for FOCUS 1.2

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:15:30 Z

Microsoft Cost Management now supports exporting cost and usage data in the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 schema. This update introduces key enhancements that help FinOps teams streamline reporting, unify billing data across clouds,
Update Type: Preview, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

FOCUS 1.2 in Microsoft Cost Management: Unified multi-cloud, multi-currency reporting

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:00:00 Z

On June 3, 2025, the FinOps Foundation released the FOCUS 1.2 standard, introducing key enhancements to help FinOps teams analyze, manage, and optimize cloud costs. We’re excited to announce that Mic...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2025 (summary)

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 Z

In May, Azure Carbon Optimization became generally available, Cost Management introduced data quality improvements for Microsoft Customer Agreement accounts, Cost Management offers a preview of expor...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Carbon Optimization, Categories: Management

Enhancements to purchase-related details in Cost Management for MCA customers

Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce that several enhancements to purchase-related data in Cost Management for Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers are now generally available. These improvements, roll...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025 (summary)

Tue, 06 May 2025 10:30:00 Z

Here's a quick run-down of the Cost Management updates for March 2025: Generally available: Microsoft Copilot for Azure Generally available: Enhanced exports New ways to save money: Genera...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Copilot in Azure, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025 (summary)

Tue, 06 May 2025 10:30:00 Z

Enhanced Cost Management Exports

Fri, 02 May 2025 18:45:26 Z

Enhanced Cost Management exports are now generally available across all Azure regions and clouds.This release improves how customers automate and analyze cost and usage data. Key enhancements include expanded dataset support (price sheets, reservation rec
Update Type: GA, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Features, Management, Open Source

Enhancements to Purchase-Related Details in Cost Management for MCA Customers

Thu, 01 May 2025 20:15:35 Z

By June, we introduce improvements that will provide more detailed and accurate information on reservations (RIs), Azure Saving Plans (ASP), and 3rd party purchases from the Azure Marketplace. RIs and ASP purchases will now show their billing subscription
Update Type: GA, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Generally available: Enhanced Cost Management exports

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of the enhanced Cost Management exports experience across all Azure regions and clouds. This release is designed to empower FinOps professionals by...
Update Type: GA, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025 (summary)

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:00:00 Z

Here's a quick run-down of the Cost Management updates for March 2025: Optimizing Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) costs Cost Management AWS connector deprecation Exchange of Azure OpenAI Serv...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Kubernetes Service, Cost Management, Categories: Services, Management

Microsoft Cost Management: Billing & trust relationships explained

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:28:00 Z

As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect supporting our global enterprise customers on FinOps and Microsoft Cost Management topics I am often involved in conversations with customers explaining the di...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025 (summary)

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 Z

Here's a quick run-down of the Cost Management updates for February 2025: Cost details datasets now include AccountId and InvoiceSectionId columns to support more cost allocation scenarios. No...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024 (summary)

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:06:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—September 2024 (summary)

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 Z

In October, Cost Management shared details about how to manage Azure OpenAI costs, new ways to save, and documentation updates.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024 (summary)

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

In August, Cost Management announced Azure OpenAI PTU reservations, improvements to Cost analysis, and more! We'll give you the quick run-down or you can see the whole story on the Azure blog. ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2024 (summary)

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

In July, Cost Management announced updates for Cost Management exports, pricing experiences, and more! We'll give you the quick run-down or you can see the whole story on the Azure blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2024

Wed, 08 May 2024 08:00:00 -0700

We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how 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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Generally Available: AKS cost views

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

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.
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

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.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management, Retirements

Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2024

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0700

Whether you're a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2024

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0800

Whether you’re a new student, or part of a thriving startup or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management—2023 year in review

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0800

Microsoft has been at the forefront of this technological revolution, announcing Copilot for Azure, M365, GitHub, and more. We, in Microsoft Cost Management, are also always looking for ways to simplify your FinOps practice so that you can stay focused on your business goals.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Copilot in Azure, Categories: Management

Democratizing FinOps: Transform your practice with FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0800

With new developments like Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management and Microsoft Fabric, there couldn’t be a better time to take a fresh look at how you manage cost within your organization and how you can leverage the FinOps Framework and the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) to accelerate your FinOps efforts.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

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).
Update Type: Preview, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Features, Management, Pricing & Offerings, Open Source

FOCUS: A new specification for cloud cost transparency

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:00:00 -0700

Get ready for FOCUS, a new open specification for cloud billing data that's redefining how you manage and optimize cloud costs. Learn about the new "language" of FinOps, why it's important, and how you can get started today with resources from the Microsoft FinOps toolkit.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories:

Microsoft Cost Management updates—August, 2023

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft 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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Generally available: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

You can export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2023

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0700

We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft 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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2023

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:00:00 -0700

Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2023

Wed, 31 May 2023 08:00:00 -0700

May is all about cost optimization! From customizable right-sizing recommendations in Advisor to many updates to pricing experiences and the addition of cost recommendations in Azure Resource Graph for Azure Gov and Azure China clouds. Throw in 3 updated previews in Cost analysis, 6 new/updated ways to save, and a bunch of videos and docs and you've got a lot of catching up to do! Enjoy!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2023

Wed, 03 May 2023 09:00:00 -0700

April introduces scheduled cost alerts for Azure Government and a wealth of tips and new ways to save with Microsoft 365 and Azure, plus 8 new and updated docs. Enjoy!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2023

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0700

Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2023

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:00:00 -0800

February brings exciting news as Microsoft joins the FinOps Foundation, Azure pricing pages get a slew of updates, and tag inheritance gets an API update.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft joins the FinOps Foundation

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Microsoft has joined the FinOps Foundation as a premier member and has joined the Governing Board defining the strategy and vision of the organization.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories:

Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2023

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800

January is always exciting, and this year is no different with the general availability of EA account management for indirect customers, recent and pinned views in the Cost analysis preview, 3 new preview features, 7 new ways to save, 1 video, and 6 doc updates.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management 2022 year in review

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

In some ways, 2022 is what we expected out of 2021. Perhaps it’s better late than never, but the world is beginning to get back to normal—albeit a new normal where hybrid work is a default rather than an exception for many of us. In this new world, demands on our time have increased exponentially, making it more critical than ever to focus on maximizing value, return on investment, and cloud efficiencies. And that’s exactly what you saw as we doubled down on savings opportunities in 2022.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0800

What better way to go into the holiday season than with a long-awaited, major new preview for Cost Management tag inheritance. Add new cost recommendations for VM scale sets and 3 new preview features in the Cost analysis preview on top of 8 new and updated offers to help you save, 76 cost-related sessions from Ignite, and 7 key doc updates and there's quite a bit to sink your teeth into from November.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Virtual Machines, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates—October 2022

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Get ready to amp up your savings! October is all about cost optimization with Azure savings plans—a more flexible way to save by pre-committing to hourly usage—the GA of the Azure Advisor score, Azure Migrate improvements, automation with Microsoft Syntex and Power Platform, and 9 other new or updated offers to help you save. You'll also learn how to group related AVD costs with 2 new videos and see 2 doc updates.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure Advisor, Cost Management, Azure Migrate, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Management updates – August 2022

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0700

August brings simplified billing account management for organizations with multiple tenants, a new way to discover updates in Cost Management, 15 new and updated ways to save in Azure, and 3 new doc updates.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Azure Lab Services August 2022 update—Improved classroom and training experience

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0700

The new updated Azure Lab Services allows you to set up and configure Cloud labs for your classroom and training scenarios. You don’t have to worry about setting up, expanding, or managing on-premises labs anymore.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Lab Services, Cost Management, Categories: Services

Microsoft Cost Management updates – July 2022

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0700

July brought a new, generally available Cost Details API for on-demand data downloads. If you use cost APIs for automation or integration, you'll want to check that out! We also added three new preview features, four new ways to save, and five documentation updates.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Cost Management, Categories: Management

Microsoft Cost Details API now generally available for EA and MCA customers

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0700

The Cost Details API is now generally available for use by Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers. This API provides on-demand download of the granular cost details (formerly referred to as usage details) associated with your Microsoft charges.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Cost Management, Categories:

Microsoft Cost Management updates – June 2022

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0700

June is all about staying informed! From viewing cost on the go from the Azure mobile app to a new API for cost alerts and an updated schema for budget alerts. Add a new tutorials experience in the portal, 10 new ways to save, 1 video, and 8 doc updates and you've got yourself a lot of catching up to do!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management + Billing is now generally available

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0700

The connector for AWS that helps you manage Azure and AWS costs from a single location is now generally available.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Introducing Azure Cost Management for partners

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800

As a partner, you play a critical role in successful planning and managing long-term cloud implementations for your customers. While the cloud grants the flexibility to scale the cloud infrastructure to the changing needs, it does become challenging to control the spend when cloud costs can fluctuate dramatically with demand.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Azure Cost Management now generally available for Pay-As-You-Go customers

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0700

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cost Management features for all Pay-As-You-Go and Azure Government customers that will greatly enhance your ability to analyze and proactively manage your cloud costs.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

Azure Cost Management now generally available for enterprise agreements and more!

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0800

We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and optimize costs across Azure.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management