ne of the most important things during the Azure journey is to think about Cost Management for your Environment. In this blog, we are going to cover the first 5, in brief, to keep your Azure Cost in check all the time. Here is the list, it is prepared in an order to sync with your cloud journey as well. We would talk about each of them in a bit of detail as well.

1. Free Services
2. Correct Sizing
3. Azure Regions
4. Azure Reservation
5. Hybrid Use Benefit

Azure Free Services

Let's get started which would cost you nothing, you can use these free services to set up a test environment or use them to test particular services to use them wisely in production. Microsoft Azure has a host of services which you can categorize between two options Always Free and 12 Months. This is the link that would give you answers to most of your questions regarding Azure Free Services, Azure Free Account FAQ | Microsoft Azure .These free services have some limitation embedded with it and not for production use, it is meant either for proof of concept or getting a good understanding of the Azure Service. It's always good to have practical exposure to anything before putting it to use for production.

Correct Sizing

In the long run for best Cost Management in Azure, you need to have Correct Sizing of the Azure Services. There are options available to get you the correct size for your requirement. Before getting started with migrating the workloads to Azure, you can do an Assessment ( Azure VM assessments in Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs ).Azure Advisor is another option that would keep you with the right sizing. Autoscaling services are also recommended to keep your services in the right shape as per the requirement. Azure Autoscale | Microsoft Azure

Azure Regions.

This is another way, where you can save the cost in long run as well. Services in each region are priced differently, some regions are cheaper for a particular resource and expensive in another region. if you have the option or business justification where you can have services or Resource groups in a different region, go for it. There can be many reasons why you would need to keep the services in a region, even if it's costly. Visit this page - Azure Global Infrastructure (microsoft.com), full details about Azure Infrastructure.
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You can get more information about the Azure Region as well by clicking on it.

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Azure Reservations.

This is very useful if you have done your POC and are ready for a long-term commitment in the Azure environment. Now you can do reservations for many services as compared to the old days where you can do so with Virtual Machines only. Azure Reservations could help you and your organization save a lot in long run. Reservations | Microsoft Azure. You can have it for years in advanced booking for many services and in return, you would get a huge discount compared to pay-as-you-go.

Azure Hybrid Benefit.

If you have licenses in your On-premise environment for your Virtual Machines or SQL, don't pay for it again in Azure. Check your software assurance and push it in the Azure as well. This would be a big cost saving immediately. It's not only with windows, You can save it for some Linux subscriptions as well. Read the documentation for more detail Azure Hybrid Benefit—hybrid cloud | Microsoft Azure

Conclusion.

In concluding the first part of the blog, we covered the first 5 which would help you in the long and short term to have perfect Cost Management in Azure. The second and final blog for Cost Management would have the remaining points for it. Follow our page for more tech-related blogs – KB Tech World (kumarbipul.com)

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