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Azure FinOps with AI: What's New in Turbo360 v5.2

Turbo360 v5.2 is the biggest AI update we've shipped. Every module now has AI built in - not just to surface data, but to explain it, guide you through it, and help non-experts take action without needing to call in a specialist. In this video, Mike Stephenson walks through every new feature in v5.2, from AI agents that explain cost drivers and rightsizing recommendations, to a brand new Savings Tracker that gives you a better way to prove FinOps impact to management.

Turbo360 for System Integrators: Grow Your Azure Practice

If you deliver Azure integration solutions for clients, this video is for you. Fragmented tooling, unpredictable bills, and support incidents that eat into your consultancy time — these are the problems that limit how fast SI partners can scale. Turbo360 helps you solve all three, and turn each one into a business growth opportunity. In this video, Turbo360 CTO Mike Stephenson (Microsoft MVP) walks through how system integrator partners are using Turbo360 to deliver better outcomes for clients, reduce support overhead, and build managed service revenue alongside their integration practice.

How to Fix Azure Integration Errors in Minutes Instead of Days

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.

The Future of FinOps: Engineering, Applications & Cloud Cost Accountability

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? Complete Beginner's Guide (2026)

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.

Top-Down FinOps: Align Cloud Spend with Real Business Strategy

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.

Your Cloud Architecture Has a Personality - Mastering Cloud Cost Profiles & FinOps

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.

Cost Optimization vs. Value Optimization: Shifting the Mindset

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.