How Do I Reduce My Cloud Bill?
summary
Focus is Azure cost levers: use the Azure pricing calculator and azureprice.net for region comparisons, enable budgets and auto shutdown on dev subscriptions, and convert long‑running VMs and SQL to reservations or savings plans. Claims include 20–72% discounts on reserved compute and an example client reduction of about $60,000/month by reserving large VMs. Watch hidden costs like network egress, logging retention, Databricks licensing, Cosmos DB runaway RU usage, and avoid Ultra Disk unless latency at tail percentiles truly matters.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Azure billing boundaries
- 3:52Cost-effective cloud architecture
- 7:21Estimating costs with Azure tools
- 9:51Fixed vs variable costs
- 12:42Optimizing storage and licensing
- 15:12Azure cost budgets
- 15:53Maximizing reservations
- 18:01Automating shutdowns
- 19:48Final cost-saving strategies
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