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Microsoft Fabric Capacity & Cost
How capacity, Capacity Units, OneLake storage, and transactions together determine the Fabric bill, and which architecture decisions drive cost.
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Microsoft Foundry: The AI App & Agent Platform
Foundry as the enterprise platform to build, ground, observe, govern, and optimize AI apps and agents: resource and projects, Agent Service, model router, Foundry IQ for RAG, control plane, and observability.
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AI Agent Cost Management
Why AI agents quietly multiply your cost, which variables drive token consumption, and how to move from cost per token to cost per successful outcome.
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