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Dirk Brinkmann explains a practical FinOps pattern for attributing AI spend (tokens, Copilot, and agent meters) when cost data is scattered across inconsistent meter categories and free-text meter names. The approach builds a customer-owned “meter map” from the Azure price sheet and joins it to FOCUS cost rows to enable reliable reporting.

Dirk Brinkmann shows how to turn Azure Savings Plan recommendations into defensible, hour-by-hour data by exporting the underlying PAYG usage series and alternative commitment levels from the Azure Cost Management Benefit Recommendations API, using a companion PowerShell script that outputs CSV, Markdown, and JSON files.