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SharePoint has 13 communication and 10 team site templates, from Organization home to IT help desk. What each is for, how to apply one and how to make your own.

AI cost per query is your total AI serving spend divided by the number of queries served over the same period. It combines model API charges (input and output tokens), retrieval and orchestration overhead, and shared infrastructure. Most production text queries cost between $0.0005 and $0.02. It's the base unit of AI unit economics, and the number finance needs before any ROI claim holds up.

Azure cost exports sometimes fail with a server error and then succeed on the next try. Some reports cover only part of the month. Large tenants get rate-limited when they request a lot of data at once. Each of these things can leave a gap in your Azure history. You normally find the gap when finance compares the Azure total in CloudZero to the Microsoft invoice.

AI Signals adds a standard set of AI dimensions to your dimension picker, plus custom dimensions built from your own data. Not every team needs all of them. The ones you don’t use make the ones you want harder to find. Cleaning that up used to require an engineer to run a script every time an account team needed a change. We identified the bottleneck and automated it, so account teams can manage dimensions themselves and engineering stays focused on product work.

An auditor asking for evidence of your deployment process and an incident review asking what went wrong are asking about the same things. The difference is timing. One catches the weak point before it costs you anything. The other catches it in the middle of an outage, with a customer on the phone.

Every number in CloudZero comes from a billing connection. When a credential expires or a permission changes, that connection stops sending data, and your reports show less spend than you actually have. If you catch it early, you can fix the connection before month-end close. You also need to know what broke. For Azure and Snowflake connections, CloudZero now tells you which check failed, so you can send the fix to the right person without opening a support ticket.

Training an AI model costs anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several hundred million, depending entirely on what “train” means. Fine-tuning an existing model: tens to thousands of dollars. Pretraining a small model from scratch: tens of thousands to millions. A frontier run in 2026: hundreds of millions, with Epoch AI projecting the largest runs will pass $1 billion by 2027.

If you’re researching AWS desktop virtualization and application delivery services, it is likely that you have come across Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. While the names sound similar, these two AWS services address different requirements. Amazon WorkSpaces provides a complete cloud desktop, while Amazon WorkSpaces Applications focuses on securely delivering individual applications through AWS-managed application streaming.

How a SharePoint Administrator locks a site with Set-SPOSite: ReadOnly, NoAccess and Unlock, how to check the state, and why an unlock command sometimes fails.

On October 20, a power failure in one of Google Cloud’s three London zones disrupted Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC and others for hours. One zone failed, errors spread region-wide, and Google warned customers they might not be able to create new workloads to fail over to. Most teams find out how resilient they are during an outage, not before one. These five questions let you find out first.