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Azure Cost Reduction

Looking for the Cost Reduction opportunities post-migration or cloud adoption is a great challenge to do however we can follow the given practices to save the cost for the Customer,

Azure Cost Reduction can be achieved by using the following practices:

Azure Reservations:

Purchase Azure services for 1 or 3 years in advance with significant discounts

  • Reserved instances – Azure Virtual Machines
  • Reserved capacity – Azure Storage, SQL Database vCores, Databricks DBUs, Cosmos DB RUs
  • Software plans – Red Hat, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Linux, etc.
  • Reservations are made for 1 or 3 years

Azure Spot VMs:

Purchase unused Virtual Machine capacity for a significant discount

How does it work?

  • Significant discounts for Azure VMs
  • Capacity can be taken away at any time
  • Customers can set maximum price after discount to keep or evict the machine

Best for interruptable workloads (batch processing, dev/test environments, large compute workloads, non-critical tasks, etc.)

Hybrid use Benefit:

Use existing licenses in the cloud

    Use existing licenses in the Azure

    Windows Server

  •         Azure VM

    RedHat

  •         Azure VM

    SUSE Linux

  •         Azure VM

    SQL Server

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL Server on VM
  • Azure Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services

Azure Tools for Cost Reduction analysis:

Pricing calculator (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/calculator/) – Calculate your estimated hourly or monthly costs for using Azure.

  • Select service
  • Adjust parameters (usage)
  • View the price

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/tco/calculator/) – Estimate and compare the cost of running workloads in datacenter versus Azure, Estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your workloads to Azure)

  • Define your workloads
  • Adjust assumptions
  • View the report

 

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