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Let me tell you about a moment that happens to almost everyone working with Azure networking. You're designing a network, you discover service endpoints, and you think "Great! This keeps my traffic on Microsoft's backbone instead of the public internet." You enable them for Storage, SQL, maybe Key Vault. Everything makes sense. Then you stumble across service endpoint policies and think "Oh cool, I can add more control to all these services!" You start setting them up for SQ

In my last post , I talked about what’s changing with Azure’s Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) APIs and why the old Usage Details endpoint is being retired. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves! If your FinOps automations rely on Microsoft.Commerce/UsageAggregates, you’ll need to migrate those scripts to use the Exports API or Cost Details API. This post covers the exact code changes you need to make in PowerShell and Python (typically what I see most often with my customers and what I t

"To be or not to be" is one of the most famous lines from William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." It's spoken by the title character, Prince...