Optimize your Azure costs
Manage your cloud spending and focus on what matters most to your business.
OVERVIEW
Save money on Azure
- Monitor and analyze your Azure bill with Microsoft Cost Management. Set budgets and allocate spending to your teams and projects. Estimate the costs for your next Azure projects using the Azure pricing calculator. Successfully build your cloud business case with key financial and technical guidance from Azure.
- Follow your Azure Advisor best practice recommendations for cost savings. Review your workload architecture for cost optimization using the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Review assessment and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework design documentation. Save with Azure offers and licensing terms such as the Azure Hybrid Benefit, paying in advance for predictable workloads with reservations, Azure Spot Virtual Machines, Azure savings plan for compute, and Azure dev/test pricing.
- Mitigate cloud spending risks by implementing cost management governance best practices at your company using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Implement cost controls and guardrails for your environment with Azure Policy.
OPTIMIZATION
8 ways to optimize costs today
Shut down unused resources
Identify idle virtual machines (VMs), ExpressRoute circuits, and other resources with Azure Advisor. Get recommendations on which resources to shut down, and see how much you would save.
Right-size underused resources
Find underutilized resources with Azure Advisor—and get recommendations on how to reduce your spend by reconfiguring or consolidating them.
Add an Azure savings plan for compute for dynamic workloads
Save up to 65% off pay-as-you-go pricing when you commit to spend a fixed hourly amount on compute services for one or three years.
Reserve instances for consistent workloads
Get a discount of up to 72% over pay-as-you-go pricing on Azure services when you prepay for a one- or three-year term with reservation pricing.
Take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit
Save when you migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure. Windows Server customers can save up to 36%, and SQL Server customers can save up to 28% compared to the leading cloud provider.
Configure autoscaling
Save by dynamically allocating and deallocating resources to match your performance needs.
Choose the right Azure compute service
Host your code using one of the many ways Azure offers. Operate more cost efficiently by selecting the right compute service for your application.
Set up budgets and allocate costs to teams and projects
Create and manage budgets for the Azure services you use or subscribe to—and monitor your organization’s cloud spending—with Microsoft Cost Management.
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Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Partners
Get help managing your costs from expert partners
Find help with cost management from an Azure partner with verified capabilities—and move forward confidently, knowing your partner is committed to your success.
RESOURCES
Cost optimization resources
Next steps
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