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Microsoft Azure Tools for FinOps:

Microsoft Azure offers a variety of tools that can help you implement FinOps principles and practices in your organization. These tools can help you gain visibility into your cloud costs enforce policies and standards, analyze and report on your spending patterns, optimize your resource utilization, communicate and collaborate with your stakeholders, and learn and improve your cloud skills. Here are some of the tools that I recommend:

Microsoft Cost Management: Monitor, allocate, and optimize your Azure costs with this powerful tool. You can track your spending by various dimensions such as resource group, subscription, service type, location, tag, or any other dimension. You can also create budgets and alerts to manage your spending limits and thresholds. You can also generate reports and dashboards to visualize and share your cost data with others.

Azure Policy: Enforce rules and standards for your Azure resources with this useful tool. You can create policies that define what actions are allowed or denied for your resources based on criteria such as location, size, type, tag, or configuration. You can also audit your compliance status and remediate any violations.

Microsoft Power BI: Analyze and report on your Azure data with this great tool. You can connect to various data sources such as the Cost Management Connector, which provides access to your cost and usage data from Cost Management, or the Azure Retail Prices REST API, which provides access to the retail prices of Azure services. You can use these data sources to create interactive reports and dashboards to explore and visualize your data. You can also share your insights and collaborate with others using Power BI.

Azure Monitor Workbooks: Create custom visualizations and dashboards for your Azure data with this handy tool. You can combine text, metrics, logs, queries and parameters to create rich and interactive reports. You can also use it to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and optimize your performance.

Microsoft Teams: Communicate and collaborate with your teams and stakeholders with this tool. You can chat, call, meet, and share files and documents with others. You can also integrate with other Azure tools such as Cost Management, Power BI, Monitor Workbooks, Advisor, or Learning paths, and access them from within Teams.

Azure Advisor: Optimize your Azure resources and reduce your costs with this tool. It provides personalized recommendations based on your usage and configuration data. It also helps you improve your performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Microsoft Azure Learning paths: Learn and improve your Azure skills with this tool. It provides curated collections of online courses, videos, labs, quizzes, and certifications that cover various topics and levels of Azure. You can use it to gain the knowledge and expertise you need to implement FinOps in Azure.
Well-Architected Review: Assess your Azure workloads and identify areas for improvement with this tool. It provides a framework of best practices and principles that cover five pillars: cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. You can use it to evaluate your current state, identify gaps and risks, and prioritize actions.

Azure savings offers: Save money on your Azure spending with these tools. They include Reservations, Compute Savings Plan, Hybrid Benefit and other discounts and incentives that you can take advantage of to lower your cloud costs.

​Ihor Zahorodnii  Microsoft Azure Tools for FinOps:Microsoft Azure offers a variety of tools that can help you implement FinOps principles and practices in your organization. These tools can help you gain visibility into your cloud costs enforce policies and standards, analyze and report on your spending patterns, optimize your resource utilization, communicate and collaborate with your stakeholders, and learn and improve your cloud skills. Here are some of the tools that I recommend:Microsoft Cost Management: Monitor, allocate, and optimize your Azure costs with this powerful tool. You can track your spending by various dimensions such as resource group, subscription, service type, location, tag, or any other dimension. You can also create budgets and alerts to manage your spending limits and thresholds. You can also generate reports and dashboards to visualize and share your cost data with others.Azure Policy: Enforce rules and standards for your Azure resources with this useful tool. You can create policies that define what actions are allowed or denied for your resources based on criteria such as location, size, type, tag, or configuration. You can also audit your compliance status and remediate any violations.Microsoft Power BI: Analyze and report on your Azure data with this great tool. You can connect to various data sources such as the Cost Management Connector, which provides access to your cost and usage data from Cost Management, or the Azure Retail Prices REST API, which provides access to the retail prices of Azure services. You can use these data sources to create interactive reports and dashboards to explore and visualize your data. You can also share your insights and collaborate with others using Power BI.Azure Monitor Workbooks: Create custom visualizations and dashboards for your Azure data with this handy tool. You can combine text, metrics, logs, queries and parameters to create rich and interactive reports. You can also use it to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and optimize your performance.Microsoft Teams: Communicate and collaborate with your teams and stakeholders with this tool. You can chat, call, meet, and share files and documents with others. You can also integrate with other Azure tools such as Cost Management, Power BI, Monitor Workbooks, Advisor, or Learning paths, and access them from within Teams.Azure Advisor: Optimize your Azure resources and reduce your costs with this tool. It provides personalized recommendations based on your usage and configuration data. It also helps you improve your performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.Microsoft Azure Learning paths: Learn and improve your Azure skills with this tool. It provides curated collections of online courses, videos, labs, quizzes, and certifications that cover various topics and levels of Azure. You can use it to gain the knowledge and expertise you need to implement FinOps in Azure.Well-Architected Review: Assess your Azure workloads and identify areas for improvement with this tool. It provides a framework of best practices and principles that cover five pillars: cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. You can use it to evaluate your current state, identify gaps and risks, and prioritize actions.Azure savings offers: Save money on your Azure spending with these tools. They include Reservations, Compute Savings Plan, Hybrid Benefit and other discounts and incentives that you can take advantage of to lower your cloud costs.  Read More

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