Shpend Kelmendi is a Software Engineer and Cloud Architect at bbv Software Services AG. He leads the Cloud Community. His playground: Azure, DevOps, and cloud architecture. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), he shares what he learns and helps others succeed in the cloud.
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You just finished your Azure lab. You spun up VMs, storage accounts, databases, maybe even a Kubernetes cluster. You learned a lot. But now… your subscription is cluttered, ticking costs, and slowly turning into a monster.
Cleaning up isn’t fun—I know this from household chores, where you need to do the same :D—but neither is an unexpected bill. Let’s fix that.
Microsoft just announced pricing for Microsoft Entra External ID M2M Authentication.
Starting November 1, 2025, every access token issued via the Client Credentials Flow will cost $0.001.
The feature isn’t going away — it’s simply entering its “production maturity” phase.
It’s time to pay more or less.
I’ve tried this before.
Starting a blog. Writing something.
And every time, I failed.
Not because of the tools. I know how to set up a blog.
I failed because I wasn’t sure what to say.
Every topic I thought about… I told myself:
So I stopped. Again and again.