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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: 2024-06-21T16:00:27+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short talk by Mike Austin describing rising costs across Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. He outlines how enterprises face shrinking discounts at…

21 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short talk by Mike Austin describing rising costs across Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. He outlines how enterprises face shrinking discounts at renewal, ongoing product price increases, and growing Azure monthly bills, leaving organizations struggling to reconcile budgets and escalating cloud expenses.

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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.