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Find out about the tools, offers, and guidance designed to help you manage and optimize your Azure costs. Learn how to understand and forecast your bill, optimize workload costs, and control your spending.
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Understand and forecast your costs
- Monitor and analyze your Azure bill withMicrosoft Cost Management. Set budgets and allocate spending to your teams and projects.
- Estimate the costs for your next Azure projects using theAzure pricing calculatorand theTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator.
- Successfully build yourcloud business casewith key financial and technical guidance from Azure.
Cost optimize your workloads
- Follow yourAzure Advisor best practice recommendationsfor cost savings.
- Review your workload architecture for cost optimization using theMicrosoft Azure Well-Architected Reviewassessment and theMicrosoft Azure Well-Architected Framework design documentation.
- Save with Azure offers and licensing terms such as theAzure Hybrid Benefit, paying in advance for predictable workloads withreservations,Azure Spot Virtual Machines,Azure savings plan for compute, andAzure dev/test pricing.
Control your costs
- Mitigate cloud spending risks by implementing cost management governance best practices at your company using theMicrosoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
- Implement cost controls and guardrails for your environment withAzure Policy.
8 ways to optimize costs today
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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.
2
Right-size underused resources
Find underutilized resources with Azure Advisor—and get recommendations on how to reduce your spend by reconfiguring or consolidating them.
3
Add an Azure savings plan for compute for dynamic workloads
Save up to 65 percent off pay-as-you-go pricing when you commit to spend a fixed hourly amount on compute services for one or three years.
4
Reserve instances for consistent workloads
Get a discount of up to 72 percent over pay-as-you-go pricing on Azure services when you prepay for a one- or three-year term with reservation pricing.Get a discount of up to 72 percent over pay-as-you-go pricing on Azure services when you prepay for a one- or three-year term with reservation pricing.
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Take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit
AWS is up to five times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server. Save when you migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure.
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Configure autoscaling
Save by dynamically allocating and de-allocating resources to match your performance needs.
7
Choose the right Azure compute service
Azure offers many ways to host your code. Operate more cost efficiently by selecting the right compute service for your application.
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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.
Cost optimization training
Learn how to save money on Azure in this free, 51-minute Microsoft Learn module,Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework—Cost Optimization. You’ll learn how to:
- Gain visibility and draw cost insights using monitoring and analytics.
- Maximize the efficiency of your cloud environment.
- Provision resources that are optimized for cost.
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Additional cost optimization resources
Overview Understand and forecast your costs Cost-optimize your workloads Control your costs
Overview
Blog: Optimize your Azure costs to help meet your financial objectives Blog: Defining roles and responsibilities for cloud cost optimization
Understand and forecast your costs
NOAM session: Monitor, manage, and optimize your cloud spend with Microsoft Cost Management Microsoft Learn module: Analyze costs and create budgets with Microsoft Cost Management
Cost-optimize your workloads
Ignite session: Get the most out of Azure with Azure Advisor Blog: How to optimize your Azure workload costs Blog: How to stay on top of Azure best practices Microsoft Learn module: Save money with Azure Reserved Instances Microsoft Learn module: Get started with Azure Advisor
Control your costs
Ignite session: Architecting and implementing governance across your Azure subscriptions Microsoft Learn module: Apply and monitor infrastructure standards with Azure Policy
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. Depending on your needs, there are two expert partner options to choose from:
Azure advanced specialization partnersprovide deep expertise in specific scenarios—such as infrastructure migration, app modernization, cloud-native app development, or managing specialized workloads on Azure.
Azure expert managed service providersare generalists, offering validated expertise in managing and optimizing Azure environments, following industry and Microsoft best practices.
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