CLOUDY MUSINGS

If you pull cost data from Azure’s Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) subscriptions, you might have noticed something new in Microsoft’s documentation lately: the legacy “Get Usage Details” API is being deprecated. That’s right. The familiar Consumption API that so many FinOps teams built automations around is heading for retirement. Before you start rewriting every script you own, take a breath. This change is not a disaster. It is an upgrade. Let’s talk about what is happening, why Micro

Picture this: you have built a castle in the cloud (filled with all your Azure workloads). Everything looks amazing, but is it safe,...

Often times I think the idea is not to confuse, but when you sort of pile on all the different services in Azure, some of the details get...

When people hear the word FinOps, their minds almost always jump to one thing: savings. “How much money can we cut from the cloud bill?”...

It's 2025! If you've been living under a rock the last 10-15 years, you may not know that the global cloud computing industry is...

If you're managing multiple Log Analytics workspaces in Azure Monitor (like one of my customers recently), keeping track of log ingestion...

The journey to FinOps maturity is a transformative process for many (if not all) organizations adopting cloud financial management...