Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025 (summary)

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.
  • Note: These columns are already available in FOCUS exports.
• Copilot is now one click away from the Cost Management overview with new sample prompts that can help you get started with Copilot for Azure.
• Learn about the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification with the Learning FOCUS blog series.
• New ways to save money with Microsoft Cloud:
  • Generally available: Changes to instance size flexibility ratios for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for M-series.
  • Generally available: Azure NetApp Files now supports minimum volume size of 50 GiB.
  • Public preview: Reduce costs with Hibernation in Azure DevTest Labs.
  • Public preview: Troubleshoot disk performance using Microsoft Copilot in Azure.
  • Public preview: Azure Monitor integrates performance diagnostics for enhanced VM troubleshooting.
  • Public preview: Introducing the new AKS Monitoring Experience—Unified Insights at your fingertips.
• Documentation updates for Cost Management API modernization, programmatically creating MCA subscriptions, and more.

This is just a quick summary. For the full details, please see Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025.