If you’re looking to tune the costs of your Azure bill, these are a number of techniques to minimize the monthly usage costs your organization pays. Review the following video:
00:54 – Savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit
02:18 – Constrained vCPU options
03:30 – Commitment-based savings plans
05:03 – Savings plans and reserved instances
06:12 – Microsoft Cost Management
06:44 – Budget limits and automation runbooks
08:57 – Azure VM Scale Sets
11:24 – Storage cost management
References:
- Guidance for Azure cost savings at https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL
- More on Azure Hybrid Benefit at https://aka.ms/HybridBenefit
- Sample scripts for budget automation at https://aka.ms/ACMrunbook
- Best practices for tagging at https://aka.ms/costmgmt/videos
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