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Cutting Your Azure Bill
A FinOps starter for teams whose cloud spend got away from them
Cloud bills grow by accumulation rather than decision. This starter guide covers attributing spend so you can see where it goes, the rightsizing and scheduling changes that typically recover the bulk of the waste in weeks, and the commitment discounts worth making once you've cleaned up — in that order, because committing to an over-provisioned estate locks the waste in.
Who it's for
Engineering and finance leaders sharing responsibility for a cloud bill nobody fully understands.
What you'll take away
- A first-month checklist ordered by saving per hour of effort
- A cost-per-service dashboard spec your team can build
- Budget alert thresholds that get acted on rather than muted
What's inside
- 1Tagging and showback: making spend attributable
- 2The five line items that dominate most Azure bills
- 3Rightsizing and shutdown schedules — the fastest wins
- 4Storage tiering, orphaned disks, and egress
- 5Reservations and savings plans, after the cleanup not before
- 6Guardrails that keep the saving from decaying
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