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Feature Announcement: Smart Compare

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We’re very excited today, to announce the release of a game-changing new feature for azure costs: Smart Compare.

Smart Compare allows our customers to conveniently compare their monthly cloud costs with the costs of any previous month. By simply choosing the relevant months, azure costs now highlights cost spikes and deflections, so that our customers can focus on the costs they are really interested in – and ignore those they’re not.

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These results can then be sorted and powerful filters allow our customers to limit what they see, to only what they’re interested in.

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We are sure that this great feature will help our costumers to identify the real cost drivers and make informed decisions on cost optimization strategies.

How to get started?
Comparing cloud costs is this simple: The Smart Compare and sorting functionality can be used right now as part of our Preview UI. Just select multiple months as shown above, to identify cost drivers, spikes and deflections.

Interested in the SmartCompare feature?
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your azure costs portal. Smart Compare is part of every paid plan, starting with the Professional subscription.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

Azure Costs now supports Azure Rate Plans and Pay-as-you-Go subscriptions

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The Azure Costs Team is happy to announce the launch of the new support for Azure Rate Plans & Pay-as-you-Go subscriptions. After an extensive beta together with many interested users, we are now ready to make this new feature globally available for everyone.

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This feature completes Azure Costs and allows you to manage any subscription type and pricing model that Microsoft offers in the different regions for the Azure cloud.

Interested in managing Azure Rate Plans or Pay-as-you-Go subscriptions?
Try the new subscription support today by simply logging into your Azure Costs service. We also designed new plans explicitly for our users without an Enterprise Agreement. Customers who are currently using a payed plan, can connect additional subscriptions for free.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

 

 

More payment options

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The azure costs  team is pleased to announce the support of more payment options, which goes live today. From now on, you are able to pay with all major credit cards, e.g. Visa, MasterCard or American Express. In addition we support Paypal as a very comfortable way to pay as well.

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The payment is processed from our partner FastSpring who is one of the most reliable and successful payment providers in the world.

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You stay in control and can upgrade or terminate your subscription at any time directly in our billing portal or in your FastSpring account.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

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Thanks to your feedback, we were able to constanly improve the Azure Costs user interface in the last weeks and months. One special hint we got from you, was the fact that it sometimes can be pretty confusing, when it comes to multiple Microsoft and Azure Active Directory accounts.

As we’re continually deploying additional features that you have been asking for to azure costs and here’s a small but very useful new functionality:

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From now on, you’ll get the mail address that was used for logging into Azure Costs, whenever you move your mouse cursor over the avatar. This ensures, that you’ll never be confused anymore about different accounts or dashboards without data.

Interested in the feature?
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your azure costs service and move the mouse cursor over your avatar. The feature is part of plan it doesn’t matter if you are using the Basic, Professional or Enterprise plan.

Get notified about new team members

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The azure costs team is pleased to announce the launch of the team admin notification support.
The new feature enables team managers and administrators to get notified when a team member activates his account. A team administrator gets a message when a user accepts the invitation or is joined automatically when accessing the service via Azure Active Directory account.

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How to get started?
The team administrator notification feature is part of every enterprise subscription. Enabling the notification in azure costs is this simple: 

1) Log in to the azure costs Dashboard and if you don’t have a team account migrate to a team (optional): 

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2) Select “Manage Team”  in the drop down on the avatar and open the newly introduced settings page.

3) Just switch the notification on with the displayed checkbox:

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Interested in the team notification feature?
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your azure costs service and migrate to a team account. The feature is part of any enterprise plan and part of any trial.

New Export-Functionality

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We feel very fortunate to have  engaged users who tell us about their cloud data management challenges and the functionality that they’d like to see added to azure costs. And we listen.

We’re continually deploying additional features that our users have been asking for to azure costs and here’s a great new functionality.

Export-Feature:
With the new export functionality our users are able to export their spending data to a CSV format.

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In addition, they can control the export to show more or less detailed data by applying the azure cost filter- and grouping functionalities.
This enables every user to export just the right granularity of information and to satisfy all stakeholders in the company.

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Interested in the new export feature?
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your azure costs account. The feature is part of any plan, starting from the free Basic plan up to the Enterprise plan.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

Website Launch Announcement: azure costs launches new site

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The azure costs  team is pleased to announce the launch of their newly designed Web site, which goes live today, and is located at the same address: https://azure-costs.com/.

It has been crafted to reflect what our users told us they need and it also builds upon new technology capable of addressing future needs. azure costs now enables our users to optimize and manage their Microsoft Azure Costs even more intuitively:

Improved and re-designed landing page
We know that landing pages are very important, so we have decided to totally re-design and re-organise ours. Our new landing page now displays all important information like features, purchase- and pricing information, screenshots, a contact form and log-in possibilities.

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More modern and user-friendly design
The new site design, aside from being aesthetically pleasing, is more agile, interactive, and is easier to scan, read and navigate.
It is using a responsive design, which means that you’ll see essentially the same design optimized for your smart phone, tablet and Desktop.

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We hope you will visit the new website at https://azure-costs.com/ and acquaint yourself with the new design. And while you’re there, don’t hesitate and let us know what you think by leaving a message. In the coming months, we hope to continue improving the site, so that it best serves all of your Azure cloud cost monitoring needs.

Daily Spending Reports now with extended breakdown options

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The azure cost monitor team is pleased to announce the launch of the extended breakdown options in the Daily Spending Reports.

This feature has been built to reflect what our users told us they need – more granular options in the daily spending reports in order to identify the biggest cost drivers and oversee unplanned spikes. The new feature enables users to customize the structure of their spending breakdowns within their reports:

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Besides the extended breakdown options we added additional information to the spending dashboard as well. From now on it’s easy to filter or group cloud costs by Cost Centers, Departments or Resource Groups within the azure cost monitor dashboard:

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How to get started?
The spending breakdown is part of your daily spending reports automatically. So no further actions are required to get a crisp overview about your daily spendings. The settings concerning the daily spending report can be adapted in the settings of the contract in the navigation bar.

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Interested in the extended spending breakdown options?
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your azure cost monitor. The feature is part of any plan, starting from the free Basic plan up to the Enterprise plan.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

Daily Spending Reports now with Subscription Breakdown

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Getting a displayed number in the daily report isn’t always enough. For staying up to date on a daily basis concerning Azure spendings it’s way better to have a subscription breakdown available which helps to identify the biggest cost drivers or to oversee unplanned spikes.

So the Azure Cost Monitor Team is very pleased to announce the support for subscription breakdowns in the daily spending report, starting today.

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How to get started?

The subscription breakdown is part of your daily spending reports automatically. So no further actions are required to get a great overview about your daily spendings. As usual, settings concerning the daily spending report can be adapted in the settings of the contract in the navigation bar.

Interested in the Subscription Breakdown feature:
Try the new feature today by simply logging into your Azure Cost Monitor. The feature is part of any plan, starting from the free Basic plan up to the Enterprise plan.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.

Azure Cost Monitor announces Azure Active Directory support

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The Azure Cost Monitor Team is very pleased to announce the launch of the Azure Active Directory support starting today.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is an identity and access management cloud solution that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups. It also helps to secure access to cloud applications including Microsoft online services like Office 365.

With the new feature, the Azure Cost Monitor allows to link teams against an existing Azure Active Directory. By doing so, a centralized identity and access management can be realized easily.
The support of Azure Active Directory Groups, enables you to grant access to dedicated groups of people or departments within your enterprise. This ensures an easy integration into your existing IT service infrastructures .
Last but not least, a seamless sign-in experience for all users (single-sign-on) can be generated by combining the Azure Directory setup with the customer buckets feature.

How to get started?
Linking an existing Azure Active Directory to the Azure Cost Monitor is that simple:

  1. Log in to the Azure Cost Monitor Dashboard and if you don’t have a team account migrate to a team:
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  2. Select the “Link to Azure Active Directory” button to start the setup process
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  3. Follow the description and login for the first time with a global administrator of your Azure Active Directory to give the required consent that allows users of your Azure Active Directory to sign in to the Azure Cost Monitor.
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  4. After the successful consent save the directory settings. All users of the Azure Active Directory can use the Azure Cost Monitor now.
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  5. Configure a new bucket so that all users will be redirected to the Active Directory Sign-In process automatically. This step is optional and can be done later as well.
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Interested in the Azure Active Directory feature:
The new feature integrates the Azure Cost Monitor more seamless into existing IT service infrastructures and increases the end user experience of your team members and co-workers. Especially the group based permission support allows you to delegate the access management to a centralised IT organisation.

Try the new feature today by simply logging into your Azure Cost Monitor enterprise account. If you don’t have an enterprise subscription, try it for free for a certain time, as we are currently in the technical preview phase.

Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try our feedback portal or drop a mail to help@azure-costs.com.