Azure is a powerful cloud platform that offers a range of services and features to help you run your applications and workloads efficiently and securely. However, managing your Azure cloud environment can also pose some challenges, such as optimizing costs and performance. In this post, we will share some tips.
Tip 1: Use Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a free service that provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources. Azure Advisor analyzes your resource configuration and usage data and suggests ways to improve cost efficiency, performance, security, and operational excellence. You can access Azure Advisor from the Azure portal or through the Azure CLI. You can also configure alerts and notifications to informed of new recommendations.
Tip 2: Use Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is a service that collects and analyzes data from your Azure resources and applications. Azure Monitor helps you understand how your resources are performing, identify issues and bottlenecks, and troubleshoot problems. You can use Azure Monitor to create dashboards, charts, alerts, and reports to visualize and analyze your data.
Tip 3: Use Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management is a service that helps you manage and optimize your Azure spending. Azure Cost Management helps you track your costs, set budgets and alerts, analyze trends and patterns, and identify opportunities for savings. You can use Azure Cost Management to view your costs by resource group, service, location, tag, or subscription.
Tip 4: Use Azure Reserved Instances
Azure Reserved Instances are a way to save money on your Azure virtual machine (VM) costs by prepaying for a certain amount of compute capacity for a fixed term. By using Azure Reserved Instances, you can get up to 72% discount on the pay-as-you-go VM prices. You can also exchange or cancel your reserved instances at any time without penalty.
Tip 5: Use Azure Hybrid Benefit
Azure Hybrid Benefit is a program that allows you to use your existing Windows Server or SQL Server licenses on Azure VMs or SQL Database instances. By using Azure Hybrid Benefit, you can save up to 40% on the VM or SQL Database costs. You can also combine Azure Hybrid Benefit with Azure Reserved Instances for even more savings.
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