News and updates from FinOps X 2024: How Microsoft is empowering organizations
Last year, I shared a broad set of updates that showcased how Microsoft is embracing FinOps practitioners through education, product improvements, and innovative solutions that help organizations achieve more. with AI-powered experiences like Copilot and Microsoft Fabric. Whether you’re an engineer working in the Azure portal or part of a business or finance team collaborating in Microsoft 365 or analyzing data in Power BI, Microsoft Cloud has the tools you need to accelerate business value for your cloud investments.Discover cost management opportunities using tailored Copilot in Azure prompts
In this blog we’re going to explore the value of incorporating Copilot in Azure in your Microsoft Cost Management tasks, and give some scenarios in which asking specific, fine-tuned prompts can yields the most helpful results.Optimizing your Azure VMs – 3 Simple Steps to Cloud Efficiency
Virtual machines are arguably still one of the most fundamental core infrastructure components when it comes to cloud computing. Whether you are hosting databases, custom apps, runner jobs, or leveraging them as nodes for your container hosts, VMs are core to your arsenal of options. At the same time, given they are designed to host operating systems, and come in all shapes and sizes, they are one of the core areas of Azure compute you should aim to optimize as quickly as possible as part of your FinOps: Cloud Efficiency initiatives.
