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2026 13

  1. Microsoft FinOps News - September 2026
  2. Now Available: Management Group–Scoped Savings Plan and Reservation Recommendations in Azure
  3. You Get One Exchange Left: Rethinking Azure Commitments Before February 2027
  4. Cost Management with Azure Resource Manager MCP
  5. Who Ordered All These Tokens? Giving AI Spend a Name in FOCUS
  6. Reservation exchanges for Azure services covered by savings plans end starting Feb. 1, 2027
  7. Introducing Cost Management and Pricing Toolsets in Azure Resource Manager MCP Server
  8. Cap it with GitHub, make it count with Azure: governing GitHub Copilot spend
  9. Introducing GitHub Pre-Purchase Plans: A Simpler Way to Plan Your GitHub Spend
  10. Right‑sizing Azure Savings Plans, one hour at a time
  11. What's new in FinOps toolkit 14 – April 2026
  12. Announcing savings plan for databases: flexible savings for modern, evolving workloads
  13. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 13 – January 2026

2025 47

  1. Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan: One Unified Path to Scale AI Agents
  2. Streamline Analytics Spend on Microsoft Fabric with Azure Reservations
  3. Smarter Cloud, Smarter Spend: How Azure Powers Cost-Efficient Innovation
  4. Unlock Savings with Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan
  5. Provider-Managed Azure Subscriptions: Cost Control and Commitment Clarity
  6. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 12 – July 2025
  7. Introducing non-breaking “breaking” changes in FinOps hubs 12
  8. News and updates from FinOps X 2025: Transforming FinOps in the era of AI
  9. FOCUS 1.2 in Microsoft Cost Management: Unified multi-cloud, multi-currency reporting
  10. A practitioner's guide to accelerating FinOps with GitHub Copilot and FinOps hubs
  11. Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2025 (summary)
  12. Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership
  13. What's new in FinOps toolkit 0.11 – May 2025
  14. Learning FOCUS: Prices + quantities
  15. How to control your Azure costs with Governance and Azure Policy
  16. Getting started with FinOps hubs: Multicloud cost reporting with Azure and Google Cloud
  17. EA to MCA: Reporting on cost in Power BI
  18. Managing Azure OpenAI costs with the FinOps toolkit and FOCUS: Turning tokens into unit economics
  19. Convert your Linux workloads while cutting costs with Azure Hybrid Benefit
  20. Unlock Cost Savings with Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput reservations
  21. Microsoft at FinOps X 2025: Embracing FinOps in the era of AI
  22. Creating custom analyses and reports with FinOps hubs
  23. What's new in FinOps toolkit 0.10 – April 2025
  24. Enhancements to purchase-related details in Cost Management for MCA customers
  25. Learning FOCUS: Commitment discounts
  26. Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025 (summary)
  27. EA to MCA: How the FinOps toolkit can help you transition smoothly
  28. Generally available: Enhanced Cost Management exports
  29. Maximize efficiency by managing and exchanging your Azure OpenAI Service provisioned reservations
  30. Learning FOCUS: Purchases
  31. A journey from Excel to FinOps hubs
  32. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.9 – March 2025
  33. Understanding AI workload cost considerations
  34. How to publish Power BI reports with a privately configured hub instance
  35. Learning FOCUS: SKUs
  36. A guide to Azure Storage and Virtual Machines cost optimization
  37. Learn to manage investments and cost efficiency of Azure and AI workloads
  38. Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025 (summary)
  39. Managing the cost of AI: Leveraging the FinOps Framework
  40. Microsoft Cost Management: Billing & trust relationships explained
  41. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.8 – February 2025
  42. Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025 (summary)
  43. Learning FOCUS: Service columns
  44. Learning FOCUS: Resource columns
  45. Securing financial data with private networking
  46. Moving to a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) from an Enterprise Agreement (EA)
  47. Learning FOCUS: Date columns

2024 37

  1. Learning FOCUS: Charge types and pricing models
  2. Learning FOCUS: Cost columns
  3. What's new in FinOps toolkit 0.7 – November 2024
  4. Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024 (summary)
  5. Learning FOCUS: Introducing an open billing data format
  6. Optimize AI costs by choosing the right Azure OpenAI pricing offer for you
  7. Microsoft Cost Management updates—September 2024 (summary)
  8. Managing Azure OpenAI costs
  9. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.6 – September 2024
  10. Unlocking Azure Savings: Introducing the FinOps Best Practices Library
  11. Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024 (summary)
  12. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.5 – August 2024
  13. Optimize your Azure costs with our expert guidance, pricing tools, and resources
  14. How to save money on Azure Compute with Savings Plans
  15. Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2024 (summary)
  16. Get tailored insights with our Advisor Well-Architected assessments
  17. Gain FinOps skills to unlock cloud value, on Microsoft Learn
  18. Identify your savings potential in Azure
  19. Moving from FOCUS 1.0 preview to FOCUS 1.0
  20. FOCUS: An open specification for cloud cost transparency
  21. Discover cost management opportunities using tailored Copilot in Azure prompts
  22. Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2024 (summary)
  23. What’s new in FinOps toolkit 0.4 – July 2024
  24. What's the difference between Azure savings plans for compute and Azure reservations?
  25. News and updates from FinOps X 2024: How Microsoft is empowering organizations
  26. Empowering cloud efficiency through FinOps
  27. Use budget management and forecasting to bring your FinOps practice into the era of AI
  28. Meet Microsoft at FinOpsX 2024 in San Diego
  29. Azure Advisor Cost Optimization workbook – April release
  30. How to budget your Azure cloud spend with Microsoft Cost Management
  31. Unlock savings potential with Azure Advisor's Cost Optimization workbook
  32. How to choose the right reserved instance in Azure
  33. Cost allocation is imperative for cloud resource optimization
  34. Grow your FinOps practice with the Microsoft community
  35. Combine FinOps best practices and Microsoft tools to streamline and optimize your workloads
  36. Leverage anomaly management processes with Microsoft Cost Management
  37. Take control of your cloud spend with Microsoft Cost Management

2023 4

  1. Interconnected guidance for an optimized cloud journey
  2. Improve visibility into workload-related spend using Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management
  3. Optimize your Cloud investment with new Azure Advisor Workbooks
  4. Optimizing your Azure VMs – 3 Simple Steps to Cloud Efficiency

2019 1

  1. Step-by-Step: Finding and Analyzing Microsoft Azure Cloud Usage Costs