5.3

New Features

• Support for Bastion in scheduling to scale scale units up or down outside business hours and cut idle spend Cost Analyzer
• Generate Az CLI script for rightsizing to produce a ready-to-run Bash script that applies recommended SKU changes in Azure Cloud Shell Cost Analyzer
• Schedule status monitoring to alert when a schedule has been disabled for longer than a configured number of days, so accidentally turned-off schedules are caught before they silently erode savings Cost Analyzer
• Explain with AI on group budget to generate a Budget Insights report covering spend trend, threshold health, and improvement recommendations for a cost group Cost Analyzer
• Azure Documenter revamped configuration wizard with a redesigned Add and Edit configuration experience — seven steps from Basics to Review — to improve usability when creating and managing document configurations Azure Documenter
• Reservation advisor — an AI agent that analyzes a purchased reservation and surfaces renewal guidance, utilization breakdown, break-even analysis, and cost-saving recommendations in a single panel Cost Analyzer
• Explain with AI in anomaly detection to generate AI-powered insights on detected cost anomalies directly from the Automatic anomaly detection widget Cost Analyzer
• Generate Az CLI cleanup script for Other recommendations of type Savings opportunity and Empty containers to produce a ready-to-run script for removing idle resources from Azure Cloud Shell Cost Analyzer
• Schedule impact monitoring to alert when a schedule's actual spend overshoots its pre-schedule baseline, so savings erosion is caught before the end of the billing cycle Cost Analyzer
• Collections in Analysis to group analysis views into named containers organized by team, project, or use case, with the ability to set a default collection and switch between them Cost Analyzer
• Explain with AI in schedules to evaluate whether a resource is a candidate for scheduling based on its 14-day usage pattern and return a projected savings estimate with a confidence rating Cost Analyzer

Enhancements

• Start/stop virtual machines workflow updated with a Power on/off schedule trigger type that handles both shutdown and restart automatically, in addition to the existing Shut down by metrics trigger Cost Analyzer
• Multiple dashboards in Cost group overview — cost groups now support multiple named dashboards, with the ability to create additional dashboards and set any one as the default view for the group Cost Analyzer
• Include or exclude a resource from profile monitoring using a per-resource Monitor toggle on any mapped profile, giving finer control over which resources are evaluated under a given monitoring profile Business Application
• User-defined roles in Business Activity Monitoring now include Business process and Business process group permissions, allowing custom roles to manage these independently of system-defined roles BAM
• Anomaly detection now supports alerting only on anomalies classified as true by AI, reducing noise from borderline cost fluctuations that the algorithm flags but the AI considers low-confidence Cost Analyzer