Quick Ways to Reduce Your Azure Costs

<p>Top tips to optimize cost savings using free tools and plans as you run workloads in Azure. Identify unnecessary spend in Azure Advisor through cost cutting, take advantage of new commitment-based savings plans based on expected utilization, employ cost avoidance tactics, such as setting budgets and monitoring with Microsoft Cost Management, and contain spend through new automation options.</p> <p>Matt McSpirit, Azure expert, shares quick ways to save money for existing Azure customers.</p> <p>► QUICK LINKS:<br /> 00:00 - Introduction<br /> 00:54 - Savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit<br /> 02:18 - Constrained vCPU options<br /> 03:30 - Commitment-based savings plans<br /> 05:03 - Savings plans and reserved instances<br /> 06:12 - Microsoft Cost Management<br /> 06:44 - Budget limits and automation runbooks<br /> 08:57 - Azure VM Scale Sets<br /> 11:24 - Storage cost management<br /> 13:00 - Tags<br /> 13:50 - Wrap up</p> <p>► Link References:</p> <p>Guidance for Azure cost savings at <a href= "https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL">https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL</a></p> <p>More on Azure Hybrid Benefit at <a href= "https://aka.ms/HybridBenefit">https://aka.ms/HybridBenefit</a></p> <p>Sample scripts for budget automation at <a href= "https://aka.ms/ACMrunbook">https://aka.ms/ACMrunbook</a></p> <p>Best practices for tagging at <a href= "https://aka.ms/costmgmt/videos">https://aka.ms/costmgmt/videos</a></p> <p>► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics?<br /> As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft.</p> <p>• Subscribe to our YouTube: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries">https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries</a></p> <p>• Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: <a href= "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog"> https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlo