A blog about Azure Cost Management and Related Stuff
If you’re in the business of deploying technology to, well, business, unless you’ve been sheltering in a cave, you’re aware that Microsoft has deepened its partnership with OpenAI by making the latter’s services available via Azure. Since my focus is on FinOps and the impact of an organization’s technology choices on cloud runtime costs, one …
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In a previous post, I discussed Azure’s AI and ML offerings: their types and purpose and presented a simplified decision workflow. In this post, I’ll apply these concepts to a typical example, showing the importance of using an informed methodology – resistant to hype – to help you make good choices for your organization. Understanding Azure Cognitive Services …
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On the Azure platform, Microsoft offers 31 services under the umbrella of ‘AI and machine learning’. There’s a lot of promotion of AI generally and machine learning specifically as meeting a variety of business needs but it’s often not clear what service should be used and what the sensible use-cases are. This adds another layer …
Azure FinOps 