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8 Effective Ways to Manage Microsoft Azure Costs
8 Effective Ways to Manage Microsoft Azure Costs

June 30, 2022

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Digital transformation is the need of the hour, and all the businesses are digitizing by moving their systems and processes onto cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure, the leading cloud platform, serves 95% of the Fortune 500 companies. It helps organizations meet their business challenges through its extensive cloud service offerings.

One of the most significant advantages of cloud migration is cost-effectiveness. However, if not managed correctly, there are chances that you may end up spending more. When it comes to Microsoft Azure, businesses can optimize their spending and keep their IT expenditure under control. In this blog, We have list down the following tips that can help enterprises reduce their Microsoft Azure cost.

Effective ways to reduce Microsoft Azure cost

One of the most significant advantages of cloud migration is cost-effectiveness. However, if not managed correctly, there are chances that you may end up spending more. When it comes to Microsoft Azure, businesses can optimize their spending and keep their IT expenditure under control. In this blog, We have list down the following tips that can help enterprises reduce their Microsoft Azure cost.

1. Resize or shutdown underutilized resources

It is a good practice to audit your cloud environment periodically and identify unused or underutilized resources. It is to be done either manually or by using the Azure Advisor feature, which is accessible from the cost tab of the Advisor dashboard. It recommends you shut down or resize resources after analyzing the resource utilization patterns.

It helps you manage the size and number of virtual machines being used. It will also analyze the spending for your MariaDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL database server resources and recommend actions according to its usage. It also helps you identify the non-provisioned Azure Express Route circuits so that you can delete the ones that are not being used. It will also help you reduce your costs by deleting or reconfiguring idle virtual network gateways. These are billed on an hourly basis, so reconfiguring them or deleting them can help you optimize your costs significantly.

The Advisor dashboard displays the estimated monies saved if you shut down or resize the resources based on the recommendation.

2. Choose the right Virtual Machine size

Azure offers a wide range of Virtual Machines to choose from, based on your specific hardware and performance requirements. Test different VMs according to your workload and then finalize the one that suits your specifications. Ideally, you can get optimal cost benefits if you are using 100% of your VM.  Depending on the requirements, you can also add or remove machines through auto-scaling or similar methods.  

3. Reserve VM instances

If you are sure about the capacity you require, you can purchase an Azure reservation instance. It will allow you to pre-purchase VMs for a period of 1 to 3 years. Microsoft provides Discounts upto 72% in such cases.  you save a lot of money compared to the pay-as-you-go pricing model.

4. The Azure Hybrid Benefit

Microsoft allows businesses to bring their on-premise Windows Server, SQL Server license, RedHat, and SUSE Linux subscriptions on the Azure cloud. Depending on your licenses, you can estimate your savings by using the Azure Benefit Calculator across all your VMs and databases.

5. Configure Auto-scaling

Azure has in-built mechanisms and capabilities to allocate resources dynamically, as per performance requirements.  If there is a sudden surge, additional resources are allocated to match the desired performance levels. In case of reduced utilization, resources are de-allocated to minimize costs. 

It also allows users to build a custom auto-scaling implementation that will monitor systems, analyze requirements, and change resource allocation on per need basis.

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