Seamless Capacity Management: PayGo for Overage
We are excited to announce an enhanced experience for managing capacity-based licenses to streamline administrative tasks and optimize resource usage.
Effective Dataverse capacity management is a key priority for IT and business administrators. With the latest updates to the Power Platform Admin Center,
- Capacity management is now more streamlined and flexible, offering admins precise control over resource allocation
- Pay-as-You-Go (PayGo) option is now available to enable scalability
Storage allocation
The foundation of the enhanced capacity management experience lies in granular allocation. Admins can now pre-allocate Dataverse capacity directly to specific environments, ensuring business units and teams operate with the resources they need while maintaining independence from other workloads.
For example, in a tenant shared by multiple business units, you can now guarantee a specific amount of capacity being available to a given unit. This prevents resource conflicts and ensures that critical workloads receive priority. Admins no longer need to manually monitor or redistribute resources as demands evolve. Instead, capacity can automatically be drawn from the tenant pool for environments with higher demands.
This precision-driven approach ensures optimal resource usage across the tenant, eliminating inefficiencies like overprovisioning and underutilization.
Overage management with PayGo
While pre-allocation provides robust control, unexpected surges in demand can still occur. To address these situations, the Power Platform Admin Center now seamlessly integrates a Pay-as-You-Go (PayGo) option with the allocation experience.
The new experience also supports Microsoft Copilot Studio, providing a streamlined approach to managing message capacity. This integration ensures that admins can efficiently manage messaging workloads alongside other capacity resources, further enhancing overall system flexibility.
When environments approach their allocated capacity limits, admins receive proactive notifications and can choose how to address overages:
- Switching to PayGo for Specific Workloads: Admins have the option to selectively enable PayGo metering for specific product to the PayGo Azure subscription, ensuring that only certain product usage in the designated environments incur charges for PayGo. This eliminates concerns about other workloads unintentionally impacting the PayGo budget.
- Depleting Pre-Paid Capacity First: The flexibility to combine pre-paid capacity with PayGo in the same environment ensures that businesses can fully utilize their pre-purchased resources before incurring any additional costs. This approach avoids being billed at PayGo rates for all usage in the environment, maintaining cost efficiency.
For admins needing stricter governance, options for programmatic hard limits on environment consuming capacity can prevent overages entirely, ensuring compliance and budget control.
Set up PayGo with consumption experience
Setting up PayGo is now a seamless process, thanks to new user experience improvements in the Power Platform Admin Center. Admins can effortlessly:
- Select the appropriate Azure subscription and resource groups to ensure alignment with organizational policies.
- Configure selective metering with clarity, choosing only the workloads or environments that should transition to PayGo when needed.
- The improved consumption dashboard offers real-time insights into usage patterns, billing trends, and capacity consumption, empowering admins to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, Admins can view billing details, allocate charges, and set spending alerts directly in the Azure portal.
By combining granular allocation with the flexibility of Pay-as-You-Go and the transparency of detailed consumption reporting, the Power Platform Admin Center has the tools your need to:
- Optimize resource utilization across all environments.
- Scale seamlessly for unplanned surges while maintaining governance.
- Eliminate inefficiencies, reduce manual overhead, and enhance cost predictability.
This comprehensive approach ensures that any business can manage the capacity needs of their business without compromising the speed of growth and innovation on the Power Platform.
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