Optimize your Azure costs

Manage your cloud spending and focus on what matters most to your business.

7 ways to optimize costs today

1. Shut down unused resources -
   Identify idle virtual machines (VMs), ExpressRoute circuits, and other resources with Azure Advisor. Get recommendations on which resources to shut down, and see how much you would save.


2. Right-size underused resources - Find underutilized resources with Azure Advisor—and get recommendations on how to reduce your spend by reconfiguring or consolidating them.


3. Reserve instances for consistent workloads - Get a discount of up to 72 percent over pay-as-you-go pricing on Azure services when you prepay for a one- or three-year term with reservation pricing.


4. Take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit - AWS is five times more expensive than Azure for Windows and SQL Server. Save big when you migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure.


5. Configure autoscaling - Save by dynamically allocating and de-allocating resources to match your performance needs.


6. Set up budgets and allocate costs to teams and projects - Create and manage budgets for the Azure services you use or subscribe to—and monitor your organization’s cloud spending—with Azure Cost Management.


7. Choose the right Azure compute service - Azure offers many ways to host your code. Operate more cost efficiently by selecting the right compute service for your application.

Reference

• Azure well architected cost optimization: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/azure-well-architected-cost-optimization/
• Cost Optimization: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/framework/cost/