Azure Updates

Enhanced Cost Management exports are now generally available across all Azure regions and clouds.

This release improves how customers automate and analyze cost and usage data. Key enhancements include expanded dataset support (price sheets, reservation recommendations, reservation details, and reservation transactions), flexible export formats (CSV with Gzip compression, Parquet with Snappy compression), and support for the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) format version 1.0.

Customers can configure partitioned files, enable overwrite support, backfill historical data—up to thirteen months from the Azure portal or up to seven years using the REST API—and export to storage accounts with firewall and network security restrictions. Schema versioning is supported to maintain compatibility with existing data pipelines.

These updates help organizations streamline FinOps workflows, manage costs at scale, and align with enterprise security and compliance requirements.  

Learn more: 

• Tutorial: Create and manage Cost Management exports 
• Cost Management Exports REST API