March 2024 (v0.3)

🆕 New in March 2024

• 📗 FinOps documentation and other learning resources have been added.
• 📊 Power BI reports have all been updated and a new Data ingestion report was added to provide insights into storage.
• 📒 Cost optimization workbook now respects the global subscription filter.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands to backfill Cost Management exports.
• 🌐 Open data files for Services now includes ServiceModel and Environment columns.

ℹ️ Updated

• 🏦 FinOps hubs bug fixes and improvements.
• 📊 Power BI reports had many fixes and improvements across all reports!
• 📒 Governance workbook improvements for manage disks, combined governance and security tabs, and enabled the export button.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands fixes to adapt to Cost Management API changes.

Thanks to @arthurclares, @ymehdimsft, @sebassem, @msamendinger, @psilantropy, @patkje75, @erincon01, @yuanzhang9, and @flanakin for their contributions!

Thanks to @ripadrao, @MSBrett, @chris-bowman, @BenShy, @helderpinto, @jamelachahbar, @thecloudman, @rodneyjoyce, @elvismangarae, @NavidKhan8, @maikvandergaag, @mutansee, @aromano2, and @Springstone for their support!

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January 2024 (v0.2)

🆕 New in January 2024

• 🏦 FinOps hubs support for China and the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

  ⚠️ There is a bug in the FinOps hubs template. Please use the 0.2.1 release candidate. The new release will be published soon.

• 📊 Power BI reports now support FOCUS and include a new report for the Cost Management connector.
• 📒 Cost optimization workbook:
  • Storage: Identify idle backups and review replication settings.
  • Networking: Azure Firewall optimization checks.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands to create and run Cost Management exports, including support for FOCUS, price sheet, reservation details, reservation transactions, and reservation recommendations exports
• 🌐 Open data files for resource types (with friendly display names and icons) and sample exports to demonstrate cost, price, and reservation datasets.

ℹ️ Updated

• 🏦 FinOps hubs bug fixes and improvements.
• 📊 Power BI reports:
  • Fixed dynamic data source error when the Power BI service refreshes data.
  • Improved loading performance and reduced memory consumption.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements.
• 📒 Cost optimization workbook:
  • Top 10 services: Updated recommendations for Log Analytics.
  • AHB: Fixed AHB to support Windows 10/11.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands updated to fix a failure in Deploy-FinOpsHub and get run history with Get-FinOpsCostExport.

🚨 Breaking changes

• FinOps hubs 0.2 requires new exports and new reports.
  • New FOCUS exports must be created and new 0.2 reports must be used to connect to the hub instance.
  • Previous actual and amortized cost exports will not work with hubs 0.2 or with 0.2 reports
  • Actual and amortized cost exports should be stopped, deleted, or redirected to a different container.
  • Existing data can remain in storage but will be ignored by the 0.2 reports. Please use 0.1.x reports to view actual/amortized data.
• Power BI reports in 0.2 only work with FinOps hubs 0.2.
  • 0.2 reports will not work with a 0.1.x hub instance or connect to old actual/amortized cost exports.
  • 0.1.x reports will not work with a 0.2 hub instance or connect to new FOCUS cost exports.
  • The connector report is independent and not impacted.

Note

Templates are not yet available in the Azure Quickstart Templates repository yet. Please see downloads below!

Thanks to @arjenhuitema, @yuanzhang9, @sebassem, @arthurclares, and @flanakin for their contributions!

Thanks to @MSBrett, @chris-bowman, @BenShy, @helderpinto, @jamelachahbar, @thecloudman, @rodneyjoyce, @elvismangarae, @erincon01, @NavidKhan8, @maikvandergaag, @mutansee, @aromano2, @Springstone, @saadmsft, @didayal-msft, and @ijurica for their support!

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October 2023 Update 1 (v0.1.1)

🆕 New in 0.1.1

• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands:
  • Convert cost data to the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
  • Get and delete Cost Management exports
  • Get open data sets for pricing units, regions, and services.
  • Get and delete FinOps hubs.

ℹ️ Updated

• 📒 Cost optimization workbook updated to cover more scenarios.

Thanks to @jamelachahbar, @aromano2, @Springstone, @saadmsft, @arjenhuitema, @didayal-msft, @sebassem, @arthurclares, and @flanakin for their contributions!

Thanks to @MSBrett, @nteyan, @soumyananda, @lkshck, @helderpinto, @AdamAndersson, @ijurica, @arthurclares, @Springstone, @saadmsft, @didayal-msft, @jamelachahbar, and @slavikn84 for their support!

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October 2023 (v0.1)

🆕 New in 0.1

• 📊 Power BI reports covering both the Cost Management connector and FinOps hubs!
  • Cost summary and Commitment discounts from the 0.0.1 release have been expanded to support the CM connector.
  • Added new pages for prices, commitments, savings, chargeback, and purchases in the Commitment discounts report.
  • Added a new FOCUS sample report to demonstrate FOCUS 0.5, including the latest changes for FOCUS 1.0.
  • Added a PBIX download for the Cost Management template app for Enterprise Agreement accounts.
• 🖥️ FinOps toolkit PowerShell commands to deploy FinOps hubs. (More coming soon!)
• 📒 Governance workbook covering CAF/WAF governance guidance.
• 🌐 Open data files with pricing units, regions, and services for data cleansing.

ℹ️ Updated

• 🏦 FinOps hubs bug fixes and support for MCA.
• 📒 Cost optimization workbook updated to cover more scenarios.

Note

Templates are not yet available in the Azure Quickstart Templates repository yet. Please see downloads below!

Thanks to @MSBrett, @aromano2, @nteyan, @sebassem, @soumyananda, and @flanakin for their contributions!

Thanks to @lkshck, @helderpinto, @AdamAndersson, @ijurica, @arthurclares, @Springstone, @saadmsft, @didayal-msft, @jamelachahbar, and @slavikn84 for their support!

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May 2023 (v0.0.1)

This release includes the first versions of the finops-hub and optimization-workbook templates. Both templates are available from the Azure Quickstart Templates repository.

Thanks to @MSBrett, @aromano2, @arthurclares, @sebassem, and @flanakin for their contributions!

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Update 1 (Jun 27, 2023)

Added CostSummary.pbix and CommitmentDiscounts.pbix reports for download. Both reports include sample data for local testing without connecting your data. CostSummary.pbix includes a FOCUS sample page.

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April 2023 (v0.0.1-alpha)

This is an early alpha release for internal testing purposes only. This release is not ready for production use. If you have questions or comments, please join us in the v0.0.1 discussion thread.