Azure Cost Management: A Practical Guide with Tips to Smarter Cloud Spending
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Summary
Microsoft Azure provides numerous benefits to businesses modernizing legacy systems or launching new products through Azure cloud application development, but without careful planning, costs can quickly spiral.
Azure Cost Management is a suite of tools that gives real-time insights into cloud spending, allows budgeting and forecasting, and enables more efficient use of resources, making it essential for effective cloud strategies.
Rightsizing VMs, using Spot VMs for non-critical tasks, and leveraging Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools to manage multiple databases more efficiently are key ways of optimizing costs.
Planning ahead with Azure Reservations for VMs, SQL databases, and App Services can mean savings of up to 72%, while setting budgets and monitoring usage proactively, and automating resource scaling can ensure that costs do not escalate.
Regularly cleaning up and tagging unused resources ensures immediate savings and easier tracking of usage.
Adhering to these strategies in Azure cloud application development helps to optimize costs and ensure that the cloud investment delivers performance and value.