Building a better way to manage Azure costs and achieve optimization
summary
Grey Matter demonstrates an Azure cost optimization platform that ingests billing via 80 Microsoft billing APIs (about four days’ lag), shows YTD/month/day run rates and a remaining-month forecast, and spots actionable items: reserved-instance and savings-plan recommendations, BYOL opportunities, VM rightsizing (example move D→E saves ~£50), idle premium disk flagged saves ~£192/yr, and a set of zombie/idle recommendations totalling ~£1,000 (or £523 for one subset). Platform exports reports and estimates one‑click savings; first 20 partners get a free subscription optimization review.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Azure cost management intro
- 2:00ISV partnership program
- 3:04Four pillars of cost optimization
- 7:14Real-time cost tracking
- 9:43Cost analysis by resources
- 11:49Top cost contributors
- 13:09Reserved instances and quick wins
- 14:11Zombie and idle resources
- 15:37VM optimization strategies
- 16:20Optimization review and closing
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