At Microsoft Ignite, we introduced key product updates to allow your FinOps journey.
As chances are you’ll know, November is the month for Microsoft’s largest buyer and associate occasion—Microsoft Ignite. This yr, we within the Price administration workforce, introduced key product updates at this occasion to allow your FinOps journey. Beneath, you’ll discover a abstract of those enhancements. We invite you to discover and take full benefit of those new options!
Let’s dig into the small print.
Exports to Microsoft Cloth
Exports is an effective way to get your prices and value datasets on your storage, evaluation and reporting wants. It is rather simple to arrange and you’ll configure it to run at a recurring schedule with no handbook intervention. You possibly can shortly set it up utilizing the Azure portal or by the API. This yr we have now made a number of enhancements to our exports resolution together with help for added datasets, help for parquet format and compression. We simply added yet one more to this listing! At Ignite, we introduced restricted availability of our Exports to Cloth connector OneLake. With this new function, you possibly can export your prices and value datasets on to Microsoft Cloth, saving you effort and time to ingest price knowledge into Cloth out of your storage account.
Please be aware that this function just isn’t usually obtainable but. You possibly can join us to allow this performance on your account by submitting this way. Our workforce will get again to you through e mail with related directions within the January timeframe.
With Microsoft Cloth, you get a unified platform on your knowledge storage, evaluation, and reporting wants. You possibly can mix knowledge from a number of sources and leverage Cloth’s built-in Energy BI to create reporting dashboards for your corporation wants. Moreover, you need to use pure language prompts to realize insights into your knowledge and for predictive analytics. Study extra about Cloth and its’ highly effective capabilities.
Azure OpenAI Service prices
Azure OpenAI view
In our final weblog, I wrote about how simple it’s to handle your Azure OpenAI Service prices in Price evaluation. You possibly can analyze prices for various time durations, monitor prices utilizing scheduled emails and budgets, and optimize your prices by leveraging Azure OpenAI provisioned reservations.
To make it even simpler so that you can analyze your Azure OpenAI prices, we’re thrilled to announce the provision of a brand new built-in view: Azure OpenAI. On this new view, you possibly can view the prices of operating all of your fashions for various time durations (precise and amortized each). This view additionally consists of the prices for reservation purchases if the buying subscription is below the chosen scope.
You possibly can entry this view in Price evaluation below All Views -> Sensible Views as proven within the screenshot beneath:
Copilot simulation for Azure OpenAI Service
As you already know, Copilot is a good software for getting your cost-related queries answered utilizing pure language. For example, you possibly can ask Copilot your prices for operating Azure OpenAI deployments as proven within the immediate beneath:
Now, we have now prolonged our Copilot capabilities to even assist you to estimate prices on your Azure OpenAI token-based deployments. An instance immediate is included beneath:
That is just the start, we are going to proceed to make enhancements to help extra simulation eventualities making it simpler so that you can estimate and therefore plan on your Azure spend.
As at all times, you possibly can proceed to make use of the pricing calculator for all of your estimation wants together with Azure OpenAI.
Azure Copilot to Price evaluation
We have now made an thrilling replace to your Copilot expertise for Price Administration by integrating Price evaluation into the Copilot generated responses. In a lot of the responses, you’ll discover a “View in Price evaluation” button which takes you to the custom-made Price evaluation view based mostly in your immediate. This allows you to take additional motion in Price evaluation like analyzing price with totally different parameters, sharing the view with others in your workforce, getting e mail alerts, and extra.
To start out using this function, merely ask your cost-related query such as you would usually do. There isn’t a further configuration wanted. For example:
Clicking on the “View in Price Evaluation” button from the response will open a brand new Price evaluation view grouped by service identify for October 2024. You possibly can stay targeted in your activity in hand whereas Copilot does the required configurations for you!
In the event you nonetheless haven’t given Copilot in Azure a attempt on your cost-related questions, I strongly encourage you to attempt some pattern prompts we have now so that you can get began.
New methods to economize within the Microsoft Cloud
Listed here are some presents that may doubtlessly assist you to cut back prices:
Documentation updates
Listed here are a number of documentation updates you may be eager about:
Wish to keep watch over all documentation updates? Try the Price Administration and Billing documentation change historical past within the azure-docs repository on GitHub. In the event you see one thing lacking, choose Edit on the high of the doc and submit a fast pull request. You may as well submit a GitHub problem. We welcome and recognize all contributions!
What’s subsequent?
These are just some of the large updates from final month. Don’t neglect to take a look at the earlier Microsoft Price Administration updates. We’re at all times listening and making fixed enhancements based mostly in your suggestions, so please hold the suggestions coming.
