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Note, the companion code and corresponding full GitHub repository is located here . Azure costs are tricky enough without licensing contracts adding another layer of confusion on top. One of my long-running jokes from my time working at Microsoft was that you needed an advanced degree just to understand Azure billing, and then a second one to understand how that billing intersects with real-world consumption in Azure. What tends to catch teams off guard is that the agreement

There has been a lot of noise lately about Microsoft “changing support” for Azure Pay As You Go subscriptions. Depending upon who you ask, this has turned into everything from “PAYG is being deprecated” to “Microsoft is forcing everyone into CSP.” None of that is actually happening. Microsoft doesn't always make this straightforward in messaging, so my hope is to help you out a bit! This is what I want to land clearly with you all and will repeat it a few times: Microsoft is

All sample PowerShell companion code for this blog can be found here . Azure has plenty of tools that do one thing really well, and Azure Resource Mover fits right into that category. If you need to move supported resources across regions without rebuilding from scratch, this is your tool. The trick is knowing what it was built for, what it refuses to touch, and how to use it without creating a surprise outage. This guide walks through what Resource Mover is good at, what it