Tag Archives: Microsoft FinOps blog

Controlling Azure costs

There’s a really useful article on the Microsoft FinOps blog about managing Azure spend through governance and Azure Policy rules. It’s aiming to help you to prevent overspend rather than react to it, and it’s a practical read for anyone responsible for cloud cost optimisation. There’s a nice table called “The Wasteful Eight” to help you focus on where you might currently be using resources that are over-provisioned, or configured with unused premium features, for example.

Find this article here: https://bit.ly/3HSGFzg.

Azure commitment discounts

Committing to an Azure service typically gives a discount, and today there are three options for a customer: Azure Savings Plans, Azure Reservations, and Azure Pre-Purchase Plans. They all behave in slightly different ways and this article from the Microsoft FinOps blog does a nice job of explaining how they work: https://bit.ly/45iTMU3.