Cloud computing offers immense scalability and flexibility, but optimizing costs remains a common challenge. Here our Azure Practice Lead and Azure Solutions Architect Shailesh Vaja offers updated strategies and shares some Tips and Tricks for Azure cost optimization that can help you maintain high performance and achieve your business goals while staying within budget.

1. Plan with Cost in Mind

Before you deploy, assess your business needs, expected usage, and performance demands. Use tools like the Azure Pricing Calculator to estimate costs based on regions and configurations, and Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to compare cloud vs. on-premises expenses. The Azure Well-Architected Framework offers best practices for building cost-efficient cloud solutions.

2. Track and Analyze Regularly

Use Azure Cost Management to monitor spending across subscriptions and services. Set up budgets and alerts and rely on Azure Advisor for personalized recommendations to optimize spending. Consider Azure Policy to enforce rules that control resource usage and prevent costly misconfigurations

3. Optimize work load efficiency

Corporate or cEnsure you’re using the right resources by choosing services that match your needs. Right-size your resources to prevent over-provisioning, and configure autoscaling to adjust resources based on demand, reducing waste during off-peak periods. Spot VMs can offer up to 90% savings for non-mission-critical tasks, like batch processing.ontract law professionals can use Copilot to automate the review and drafting of legal documents. AI speeds up this normally time intensive task and lowers the chance of human error.

4. Leverage Azure Reservations and Hybrid Benefits

Commit to 1- or 3-year reservations for services like VMs and databases to save up to 72%. The Azure Hybrid Benefit allows you to bring existing on-premises licenses for Windows or SQL Server to Azure, reducing costs by paying for the base compute rate only.

5. Use Azure Savings Plans for Compute

For consistent compute usage, Azure Savings Plans for Compute offer discounts of up to 65% off pay-as-you-go pricing. These flexible plans cover VMs, App Services, and Functions, with automatic application of savings across eligible resources.

What’s Next?

Optimizing Azure costs is a dynamic process of planning, monitoring, and action. By following these best practices and leveraging Azure’s cost management tools, you can maximize your cloud investment while staying within budget. If you need more help or guidance on Azure cost optimization, feel free to contact us at sales.uae@cobweb.com or call +971 4 455 3100.

Better still, join Shailesh Vaja for our October 9^th webinar when he’ll introduce participants into the ways to maximise their Azure performance and optimise their Azure spend.

If you need more help or guidance on Azure cost optimization, feel free to contact us at sales.uae@cobweb.com or call +971 4 455 3100.