I recently presented on a webinar hosted by the Turbo360 team and Michael Stephenson, the host of Azure on Air and FinOps on Azure podcasts. There, we discussed the most common mistakes in optimizing compute costs in Azure and how to avoid them, the ...
When optimizing cloud costs for large enterprise environments, it’s common to focus on compute-intensive cloud resources, such as virtual machines, clusters, and container-based workloads, as they are usually the primary cost driver and top contribut...
Last fall, Microsoft announced a new cost-saving option for Azure workloads called Savings Plans. Many customers who already were using Reservations (aka Azure Reserved Instances) to save on their cloud costs mistakenly perceived Savings Plans as a r...
This is probably one of the top 10 questions I hear from customers running their workloads in Azure. The question’s intent might vary, but its ultimate goal is the same — to remove unused resources. Let’s explore why we keep facing that question and ...
UPDATED. It seems that Microsoft borrowed my idea of analyzing Azure Hybrid Benefit usage with Azure Monitor Workbooks and included the corresponding charts in the Cost Optimization workbook in Azure Advisor. Feel free to check it for AHUB numbers an...
UPDATE. On May 23, 2023, Microsoft announced a built-in functionality for alerting about underused Azure Reservations. If you don't need your reporting in a specific format and are okay with a standard notification template from Azure, it's totally f...
