Remove the FinOps e-book references

[Copilot]

Problem

The FinOps e-book (https://aka.ms/finops/ebook) referenced in the documentation is no longer available. All references to the e-book need to be removed.

Changes

Removed all references to the FinOps e-book from documentation:

• docs/guide.md: Removed the "📑 Standardized reporting" ebook tile from the Getting started section
• docs-mslearn/implementing-finops-guide.md: Removed the "FinOps on Azure e-book" list item from the Get started section
• docs-mslearn/index.yml: Removed the "FinOps with Azure e-book" card from the landing page
• docs-mslearn/TOC.yml: Removed the "FinOps on Azure e-book" navigation item
• docs-mslearn/toolkit/changelog.md: Added changelog entry under a new "Implementing FinOps guide v14" section with issue reference (#1813)

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Fix FinOps ebook link in the guide</issue_title>
<issue_description>There is no ebook to download at this link from the guide: https://aka.ms/finops/ebook

It is just an overview page with several examples and success stories for Microsoft in general. I guess the actual FinOps ebook should be here: https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/solutions/finops

https://github.com/microsoft/finops-toolkit/blob/2367310bd84c71c7f7e22423655f00d120626cf6/docs/guide.md?plain=1#L41C34-L41C61</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Triage the issue, research using mslearn, provide proposed solutions along with links/citations to authorative sources.</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

Fixes #1813

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[RolandKrummenacher]

@copilot Your link is broken, too. Use this link: https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/solutions/finops

[Copilot]

@copilot Your link is broken, too. Use this link: https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/solutions/finops

Updated the link to https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/finops which is the correct Azure Solutions page for FinOps. This URL is consistent with what's used in other Microsoft Learn documentation and automatically redirects to the appropriate locale. (Commit: ${shortHash})

Warning

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[RolandKrummenacher]

I'm not sure this is the right approach. The ebook can't be downloaded directly because of how Marketing is tracking the downloads. Whether people expect a direct download or not, that's just what they have. I would not change this and leave it as-is. Linking to a generic FinOps page isn't any more helpful. I would argue its worse. At least the download page has a [hopefully] clear purpose for downloading the file in question. The FinOps solution page has many CTAs with different goals where the same download page is one of the many links and that still forces them to go thru the download experience. So this feels like the wrong direction. I vote we cancel this PR and close the issue as won't fix. That said, I don't know the source of the feedback. If it's a major issue, we can think about ways to clarify that the download links are download pages and not the direct file, but I don't see that this is something we should be overly concerned with. But again, I am missing context.

Ok, but if we do nothing, the link will keep pointing to https://aka.ms/finops/ebook and that resource has nothing to do with FinOps at all.

[flanakin]

Looks like the new URL is: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2294724&clcid=0x409

Let me see if Fernando can update the aka.ms link. That's the right way to fix the link.

[flanakin]

@copilot Can you update the PR body to reflect the latest intent of this PR?

[Copilot]

@copilot Can you update the PR body to reflect the latest intent of this PR?

Updated the PR description to reflect the latest intent: the correct ebook URL is https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2294724, and the preferred approach is to update the aka.ms redirect so documentation links work without needing code changes. The PR notes that if the aka.ms redirect can't be updated, the docs should be updated to use the fwlink URL directly.

[flanakin]

@copilot It looks like the e-book was removed. Can you remove all references to the FinOps e-book and the "aka.ms/finops/ebook".

[Copilot]

@copilot It looks like the e-book was removed. Can you remove all references to the FinOps e-book and the "aka.ms/finops/ebook".

Removed all references to the FinOps e-book and aka.ms/finops/ebook from the following files (commit f712fc7):

• docs/guide.md - removed the ebook tile from the Getting started section
• docs-mslearn/implementing-finops-guide.md - removed the ebook list item from the Get started section
• docs-mslearn/index.yml - removed the ebook card from the landing page
• docs-mslearn/TOC.yml - removed the ebook navigation item

[flanakin]

🤖 [AI][claude-sonnet-4.5] PR Review

Summary: This PR successfully removes all active references to the discontinued FinOps e-book from the documentation. The changes are clean and complete.

💡 Suggestions (1)

1. Add issue reference (#1813) to the changelog entry for consistency with other changelog entries