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Jul 17, 2023 Microsoft Azure FinOps

Azure Savings Plans vs. Azure Reservations

Last fall Microsoft announced a new cost-saving option for your workloads in Azure 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 replacement for them.

Jan 5, 2023 Azure Monitor FinOps How To

How to audit Azure Hybrid Benefit usage with Azure Workbooks

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

Nov 29, 2022 Azure Policy FinOps

Audit and Enable Azure Hybrid Benefit using Azure Policy

Azure Hybrid Benefit can significantly reduce your IaaS costs in Azure by utilizing your existing software licenses. However, how do you ensure it’s applied correctly, especially at scale? That’s the question worth answering.

Oct 3, 2022 Microsoft Azure How To FinOps

How to monitor Azure Reservations utilization

Using Azure Reservations is one of many technics to optimize your cloud spend in Azure. They are a great option to reduce costs for Azure resources with a long lifespan and predictable utilization.

Aug 4, 2020 Microsoft Azure How To FinOps

Practical use cases of cost optimization in Azure

Addressing the subject with traditional direct approaches of cost-cutting such as negotiating for discounts or moving to a cheaper service provider can help you to some extent. Still, your saving results might not be very impressive if comparing to cloud-native options.