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The Azure Cost Optimization Field Guide

The buyer side reference that turns our Azure guide into a working playbook: every lever, the order to run them in, and worked examples drawn from 500-plus optimized environments.

Azure bills carry around a third in waste before any discount is applied. This field guide is the practical companion we hand to engineering and finance teams who want to recover it themselves, or to understand exactly what we do in an engagement. It is vendor neutral and written from the customer's side of the table.

What is inside

• The 30 percent waste map: where Azure spend hides
• VM rightsizing decisions, with a worked before and after
• Idle, orphaned and stopped-not-deallocated resource cleanup
• Blob storage tiering and Managed Disk tier selection
• Reservations vs Azure savings plans: the decision table
• Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows, SQL and Linux
• The commercial layer: EA, MCA and negotiating a MACC
• Governance: budgets, alerts and tagging that holds
• A 35-point quick-win checklist you can run this week

Prefer help applying it? The Azure cost optimization service runs every lever for you, on a fixed fee or no savings, no fee basis.