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A practical guide to Azure cloud cost optimization

Where Azure spend typically hides and the engineering changes that reduce it without hurting reliability.

Draft outline

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Planned outline

01
Making spend visible
- Tagging strategy
- Cost views per environment and team
02
Common sources of waste
- Idle non-production environments
- Over-provisioned compute and databases
- Unmanaged storage growth
03
Engineering fixes
- Right-sizing and autoscaling
- Scheduling non-production resources
- Infrastructure as Code guardrails