In this episode of the Azure Enablement Show, you’ll learn how to effectively budget your next project and optimize your Azure spend by leveraging the Pricing Calculator, strategic pricing offers, and other Azure tools and resources. I had the chance to speak with Kyle Ikeda and Ryan Lowell from Microsoft to learn more about the different offerings!
Effective budgeting for an Azure project involves a strategic approach to optimize spending. Utilizing the Azure Pricing Calculator is a crucial first step, allowing for an estimation of costs tailored to specific project needs. Strategic pricing offers, such as Azure Reservations for long-term commitments or Azure Hybrid Benefit for existing on-premises licenses, can significantly reduce costs. Additionally, tools like Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor provide insights into spending patterns and offer recommendations for cost optimization.
By setting budgets within Azure Cost Management, organizations can monitor and control their cloud spend, ensuring alignment with financial objectives. Implementing these tools and resources facilitates informed decision-making, enabling a balance between performance and cost-efficiency for Azure projects.
- Azure pricing: How to calculate costs of Azure products and services https://aka.ms/azure-pricing-budget
- Azure pricing: How to optimize costs for your Azure workloads https://aka.ms/azure-pricing-optimize
- Training: Azure Pricing Collection https://aka.ms/azureoptimizationpricing
- Azure pricing overview https://aka.ms/azurepricing
- Get the best value in your cloud journey with Azure pricing offers and resources https://aka.ms/azure-pricing-journey
- Explore more cloud enablement resources! https://www.azure.com/enablement Related episodes
- Understand Azure Pricing and Azure Migrate https://aka.ms/azenable/163
- Introduction to Azure savings plan for compute https://aka.ms/azenable/97
