Ten Cost Optimization Tips in Azure

Use Azure Advisor’s Cost optimization recommendations & Act on it

Choose the right size of VM. In prod environment, if the resource utilization is less, try resizing the VM

Azure lets you reserve your VM instance with 3 reservation options,

1 Year RI = 40-45 % discount

3 Years RI = 60-65 % discount

Spot Pricing = 80-90% discount

• Choose the right region, as services cost differs from regions.
• Choosing Hot or Cold or Archive tiering for storage plays a major role in cost differentiation.
• Delete resources that are not in use like Public IP, Data disks.
• For development & testing purposes, try considering Azure Dev/Test labs. Most of the dev/test VMs are given at the same price as Linux VMs cost.
• In an Enterprise environment that has 100s of administrators, implement Azure Policy for resource creation to restrict expensive resources to be utilized by admins.
• Can your application/workload be containerized? If yes, Leverage Azure container registry & Azure Kubernetes services.
• Choose the data to be backed up carefully with business requirement understanding, to save the retrieval cost of backed up data.

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