FinOps workbooks Engineering hub to maximize cloud ROI through FinOps.

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FinOps workbooks are Azure workbooks that provide a series of tools to help engineers perform targeted FinOps tasks, modeled after the Well-Architected Framework guidance.

What's new in April 2026v14

In April, FinOps workbooks fixed the broken feedback link in the Optimization workbook, excluded dev/test subscriptions from Azure Hybrid Benefit reports, and fixed AHB reports to include Windows VMs from all publishers.

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A central hub for efficiency and control

🦉 Holistic view

Review Azure Advisor cost, security, and reliability recommendations from a central engineering hub.

💤 Identify idle resources

Identify idle and unused resources to reduce waste.
 

📈 Maximize commitments

Monitor reservation and savings plan usage across subscriptions.
 

☁️ Expand Hybrid Benefit

Identify opportunities to use Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows, Linux, and SQL Server.

🧮 Review resource inventory

Summarize and review resource inventory across multiple areas.
 

🪦 Review retired services

Review retired services and impacted resources.
 

⚖️ Monitor policy compliance

Review Azure Policy assignments and compliance status per subscription.

Deploy FinOps workbooks

FinOps workbooks require the Contributor role or a role with both Microsoft.Resources/deployments/validate/action and Microsoft.Resources/deployments/write permissions for ARM template deployments, Workbook Contributor role to save changes, and Reader on all subscriptions you want to monitor.

If you only have Reader access, you can download the workbook JSON files from the finops-workbooks.zip package available in the latest release, and then import them directly into Azure Monitor Workbooks.

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Estimated cost for FinOps workbooks

FinOps workbooks do not incur any cost.

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💹 Cost optimization

Monitor resource utilization and maximize cost efficiency across your Azure environment.

⚖️ Governance

Monitor resources, service alerts, and policy compliance across your Azure environment.

⚙️ How to customize

Learn how to install and edit FinOps workbooks to tune them to meet your unique needs.

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