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Getting started with FinOps hubs: Multicloud cost reporting with Azure and Google Cloud

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GrahamM
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May 27, 2025

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Microsoft’s FinOps hubs offer a powerful and trusted foundation for managing, analyzing, and optimizing cloud costs. Built on Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), FinOps hubs...
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AnneG
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Jul 03, 2025

Thank you for this very useful post.

I'm following all the steps and on the GCP part, I was able to finalize everything, except that when I ran the FOCUS SQL Query, the database of my dataset would not be located in the right EU region. There are limitations on some EU regions when you are not on a Multi-region dataset. In my case, I located everything in 1 region in EU and I didn't choose the right one, apparently 🤔