InfoQ - Cost Optimization

Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:09:00 GMT

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone redundancy can only be configured when creating an instance.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos, Billed Per Review with Reporting Two Days behind

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:01:00 GMT

Microsoft opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, after acknowledging that many are not ready to migrate to GitHub. Reviews bill per use through the linked Azure subscription and appear in Cost Management 48 hours later. Budgets notify but do not stop reviews, and concurrency caps at five per organization.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:18:00 GMT

Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; configured subsets exclude new models until added. The effective context window equals the smallest model in the pool.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers