Azure FinOps Updates

Azure Cloud Cost Optimization News & Updates

Welcome the Azure FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization updates.

Every week, we’ll update this page with all the news that can  help you do cloud cost optimization in Azure.

August 3rd, 2025

Making Sense of Marketplace and FinOps!

For those managing third-party software, Microsoft held a great “Office Hours” session on FinOps and the Microsoft Marketplace.

The key takeaway is how using the Marketplace can really help your FinOps practice. It simplifies things by centralizing your billing for third-party tools right onto your main Azure invoice.

This makes it much easier to track your total cloud spend, manage budgets, and handle procurement, all from one place.

25th of July, 2025

Better Savings Plan Recommendations in Azure!

Great news for Azure users! Savings plan recommendations can now be based on your last 7, 30, or 60 days of usage.

This gives you more flexibility to get recommendations that truly match your usage patterns, whether you’re looking at a short-term project or long-term trends.

More accurate recommendations mean you can commit with more confidence and maximize your savings.

Find Idle MySQL Servers in Azure!

Time to hunt for more savings! Azure Advisor will now give you cost recommendations for idle Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Servers.

This is a super helpful, direct way to find databases that are running and costing you money but aren’t actually being used.

Getting these alerts from Advisor makes it easy to find and shut down waste without having to dig through metrics yourself.

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Here are additional FinOps updates we made that involve information about Azure Cloud Cost Optimization updates

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