Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025 

By Dustin Ward

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.  Manage your cloud…

Tired of all the restarts? Get hotpatching for Windows Server

By Dustin Ward

Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest release of Windows Server 2025 is the addition of hybrid and multicloud capabilities, aligned with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach. With hotpatching, we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025

By Dustin Ward

In this article Optimizing AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) costs  AWS (Azure Web Services) connector deprecation Exchange of Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations Help shape the future of cost reporting Documentation updates What’s next for Cost Management? Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025

By Dustin Ward

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. We’re always looking…

Microsoft Cost Management—2024 year in review 

By Dustin Ward

Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024

By Dustin Ward

As you may know, November is the month for Microsoft’s largest customer and partner event—Microsoft Ignite. This year, we in the Cost management team, announced key product updates at this event to enable your FinOps journey. Below, you’ll find a summary of these enhancements. We invite you to explore and take full advantage of these…