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Azure Ascend Unraveling Cloud Costs with Source Code Controls FinOps Magic

Name: Azure Ascend Unraveling Cloud Costs with Source Code Controls FinOps Magic
Uploaded: 2024-04-16T19:00:12+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin outlines how organizations face rising costs across Microsoft 365 (O365/M365) and Azure. He highlights that many enterprises bought M365…

16 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Austin outlines how organizations face rising costs across Microsoft 365 (O365/M365) and Azure. He highlights that many enterprises bought M365 under enterprise agreements with substantial discounts that are now being reduced at renewal, alongside ongoing product price increases. Organizations migrating workloads into Azure also see growing monthly bills for multiple reasons and struggle to understand and control why costs keep rising and budgets fail to align.

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So if you look at what's going on in the sort of O365 world, you know, organizations are typically in these enterprise agreements. With Microsoft, they bought into M365. Microsoft may have given them, you know, some substantial discounts to do that. And, you know, they're coming up for renewal, and Microsoft is decreasing the discounts. They've had ongoing price increases on their product across the board. They've migrated into Azure as a cloud. And, you know, even in there, their monthly costs continue to grow for a variety of reasons. And, you know, they basically end up struggling, trying to figure out, you know, why is everything getting more expensive, we're not able to meet our budget, those sorts of things.