Best practices

How do you reduce the cost?

• Azure advisor cost tab is a good place to start

• Auto shutdown on dev/qa resources

• Utilize cool/archive storage where possible

• Reserved instances

• Configure alerts when billing exceeds an expected level

• Use policy yo restrict access to certain expensive resources

• Auto scaling resources

• Downsize when resources over-provisioned

• Ensure every resource has an owner (tags)

• Spot Pricing - Ability to use VM when nobody is using it for a discounted price, but when someone pays in full you get kicked of