7 ways to optimize Azure costs today | How to save on your azure bills

Understand and forecast your costs
Monitor and analyze your Azure bill with Microsoft Cost Management. Set budgets and allocate spending to your teams and projects.
Estimate the costs for your next Azure projects using the Azure pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator.
Successfully build your cloud business case with key financial and technical guidance from Azure.
Cost optimize your workloads
Follow your Azure Advisor best practice recommendations for cost savings.
Review your workload architecture for cost optimization using the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Review assessment and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework design documentation.
Save with Azure offers and licensing terms such as the Azure Hybrid Benefit, paying in advance for predictable workloads with reservations, Azure Spot Virtual Machines, and Azure dev/test pricing.

Control your costs
Mitigate cloud spending risks by implementing cost management governance best practices at your company using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Implement cost controls and guardrails for your environment with Azure Policy.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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 Microsoft Cost Management.

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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.

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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Basic concepts before ways to optimize
03:08 Optimize by shutting resourcs
03:31 Right size underused resources
03:54 Reserve instance
04:16 Azure Hybrid
04:59 Azure Autoscaling
05:16 Setup azure budget and costs
05:39 Choose right compute service