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Enhanced Cost Management in Amazon Q Developer Chat

💡 Amazon Q Developer now includes enhanced cost management features that let users analyze costs across broader Cloud Financial Management domains with advanced analytics. Users can ask open-ended questions about historical and forecasted costs, optimization recommendations, commitment utilization, anomalies, budgets, free tier usage, and product attributes. Q explores data, forms hypotheses, performs calculations, and shows the API calls and console links used for transparency.

Microsoft Cost Management: July-August 2025 Product Updates

💡 Microsoft Cost Management released a set of July–August 2025 updates to help organizations monitor and reduce Azure spend. The release adds service principal support for the Partner Admin Reader role, enabling EA indirect partners to programmatically access cost data without interactive accounts. Other highlights include a Pricing Calculator user tip, new cost-saving offers such as Azure Firewall ingestion-time transformation (GA) and the Azure Storage Mover preview, updated documentation on billing and reservations, and new instructional videos on cost allocation and Copilot for cost insights.