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Azure integration errors can be difficult to diagnose when messages flow across multiple services such as Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Functions, APIs, and external systems. Support teams often spend hours searching through logs and correlating events across services just to identify where a transaction failed.

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure Podcast, Michael Stephenson is joined by Ben DeBow, Founder and CEO of Fortified, to discuss the next evolution of FinOps and why cloud cost management needs to move beyond dashboards, reporting, and allocation. Ben shares insights from years of helping enterprises optimize cloud spend and explains why the biggest savings opportunities are often hidden inside applications, workloads, and engineering decisions—not infrastructure.

What is Azure Cost Management and how can it help you control cloud spending? In this complete beginner's guide, Michael Stephenson explains the fundamentals of Azure Cost Management and walks through the core features available in Azure. You'll learn how Azure organizes billing accounts, subscriptions, resource groups, and management groups, and how these structures affect cost tracking and reporting.

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Michael Stephenson is joined by Stephanie Yackimec, a Microsoft licensing specialist and FinOps consultant from Calgary, to discuss how organizations can save money on Azure through effective cloud cost management.

Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements added to elevate your Azure management experience. Hit play to hear what's in store for this month.

In this episode of FinOps on Azure, Michael Stephenson sits down with Frank Contrepois, independent FinOps voice and co-host of The FinOps Guys podcast — to explore what it really means to manage cloud costs from a business-first perspective. Frank has been in the FinOps space for nearly a decade and brings a genuinely different angle to the conversation. His background in commodity trading at Strategic Blue (a Morgan Stanley spinoff) shaped how he thinks about reserved instances, commitment strategies, and why most teams approach cost management the wrong way round.

In this session, we explore how organizations can move beyond basic cloud cost reporting to truly understand the business value of their IT investments. Using the T2Bv (Technology-to-Business Value) meta-framework alongside FinOps practices, we explain how to connect IT resources, including Azure environments, to measurable business outcomes.

Most teams treat cloud cost like something to clean up later. In reality, it is already baked into how your system behaves. Every workload has a personality. Some spike with concurrency. Some quietly run all day and never shut off. Some look efficient until scale hits and then costs accelerate. And some charge you every time they run, every query, every scan, every execution. This episode is about recognizing those patterns early. Once you understand how your architecture behaves under load and over time, you stop reacting to cost and start shaping it.

In this FinOps on Azure podcast Azure MVP Aiden Finn reveals why cloud migrations crash and how Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) ensures success. Real stories, landing zones, FinOps tips, and more!

Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements added to elevate your Azure management experience. Hit play to hear what's in store for this month. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:13 - Cost Pulse Summary Report 00:00:49 - Configuring Cost Pulse Summary 00:01:17 - New AI Agents (4 New Agents) 00:01:54 - Accessing AI Agents 00:02:18 - Related Resources Feature 00:02:40 - Budget Planner 00:02:59 - Setting Up Budget Planner Permissions 00:03:11 - Multi-Subscription Onboarding 00:03:43 - AI Agents Role-Based Access 00:04:10 - New RA-GRS Optimization Recommendation 00:04:30 - Summary & Call to Action.