💰 Azure Cost Management

Managing cloud costs is crucial to avoid surprises and optimize your Azure spend.

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📊 Monitoring Costs

• Azure Cost Management + Billing:
  Provides detailed insights into your cloud spending with dashboards, reports, and alerts.

• Budgets and Alerts:
  Set budgets to control spending and get notifications when thresholds are reached.

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🛠️ Cost Optimization

• Right-sizing Resources:
  Adjust compute, storage, and networking resources to avoid over-provisioning.

• Reserved Instances:
  Save costs by committing to long-term resource usage.

• Azure Hybrid Benefit:
  Use existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to reduce costs.

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🔎 Chargeback and Showback

• Allocate cloud costs to different departments or projects to promote accountability and transparency.

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✍️ My Learning Reflection

Understanding Azure’s cost management tools helped me see how vital it is to continuously monitor and optimize cloud usage to maximize ROI.