Azure Cost Clarity — Know What You Pay, Pay Less

Analyze your VM usage history and build a reservation strategy across 1-year and 3-year terms, by region and instance family.

Ensure you are fully utilizing your existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to offset Azure VM and SQL Database costs.

Evaluate Compute Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances for your workload mix and recommend the optimal commitment structure.

Right-size node pools, implement Spot node pools for batch workloads, and configure cluster autoscaler to eliminate idle capacity.

Review DTU vs vCore models, analyze serverless vs provisioned options, and identify reservation opportunities for your database tier.

Implement lifecycle management policies to automatically move blob data to Cool and Archive tiers, dramatically reducing storage costs.

Identify non-production workloads that qualify for Azure Dev/Test pricing and restructure subscriptions to capture these significant discounts.

Set up budgets, alerts, and tagging strategies to give your team real-time visibility into spend and prevent bill shock.

Tune Azure Backup retention, managed disk snapshot tiers, and Recovery Services vault policies to cut redundant restore points and archive long-term backups.