Blog
Perspectives on FinOps and AI economics: from the standards we help shape to the assumptions we challenge about cost, value, and what comes next.
Update
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Allyte · September 15, 2026
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A Copilot Studio agent template for querying hub data in plain language, an optimization recommendations pipeline built on Azure Advisor and custom queries, a simpler hub deployment experience, and a preview commitment discount eligibility dataset.
Michael Flanakin · May 13, 2026
Office hours
A multi-day ingestion mystery traced to a Kusto quirk under private networking, a technique for spotting new deployments from cost data alone, and a first look at FinOpsHubs.com.
Allyte · September 16, 2026
Guide
Savings plan for databases now offers a 3-year term alongside the original 1-year option, but Microsoft's own documentation confirms both carry the same discount rate. Here's what actually changes, and how to decide which term fits.
Allyte · September 14, 2026
Office hours
A discussion about whether FinOps is fundamentally an observability discipline, and a stark comparison of how much easier AWS makes billing telemetry look next to Azure's.
Allyte · September 2, 2026
Point of view
Azure is ending reservation exchanges for savings-plan-eligible services from February 2027. The fix is a laddered mix of reservations and savings plans, started now, not in 2027.
Roland Krummenacher · August 24, 2026
Office hours
A debate over how to measure reservation and savings-plan performance landed somewhere more useful than the metric most teams default to, plus a look at how the FinOps toolkit handles price-sheet timing behind the scenes.
Allyte · August 5, 2026
Update
FinOpsHubs.com is a free experience layer coming to the FinOps hubs deployment you already run, and the waitlist is open for early access.
Allyte · July 28, 2026
Office hours
An AI agent queried a customer's own cost data and surfaced a billing discrepancy nobody had spotted, plus a FinOps toolkit v15 roadmap tease and a first mention of a new FinOps hubs customer portal.
Allyte · July 22, 2026
Office hours
A one-field data-type fix behind a mysterious Power BI refresh failure, and word that GitHub and Microsoft 365 Copilot usage data is coming to the FinOps toolkit.
Allyte · July 8, 2026
Office hours
A reservation-savings row with no subscription name traced back to how Microsoft Customer Agreement billing actually works, plus a candid look at AI token costs becoming the FinOps team's next big fight.
Allyte · June 24, 2026
Office hours
A live FinOps toolkit dashboard walkthrough turned into a coaching moment on effective savings rate, plus a field story about turning CapEx licensing into OpEx savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit and Arc.
Allyte · June 10, 2026
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Stability and usability work across FinOps hubs, Power BI, and Azure Optimization Engine, plus Key Vault purge protection support and Parquet exports in PowerShell.
Michael Flanakin · February 9, 2026
Guide
Azure's v6 VM sizes bring more cores and memory per dollar, but the move from v5 isn't a plain resize. Here's what to validate first, and why the real payoff comes after migration, not during it.
Roland Krummenacher · December 17, 2025
Point of view
Microsoft's retirement notice for the F, Lsv2, G, Av2, and B-series VM families is straightforward until you read the details, starting with which B-series it actually means.
Roland Krummenacher · November 13, 2025
Update
FOCUS 1.2 support, a Data Explorer auto-start that cuts hub costs, a new executive summary in the Cost summary report, and a versioned schema upgrade that doesn't break a single existing query.
Michael Flanakin · August 5, 2025
Guide
The FinOps toolkit's standard Power BI reports cover the common scenarios, but the flexibility to go further, custom analyses, your own reports, enrichment with internal data, sits underneath them in Azure Data Explorer. Here's how to use it.
Roland Krummenacher · May 13, 2025
