Costs Best Practices

• Perform cost analyses - Plan your Azure solution wisely.

• Monitor usage with Azure Advisor.

• Use spending limits - Help prevent you from exhausting the credit on your account within each billing period.

• Use Azure Reservations - Discount = Reserve products and resources by paying in advance.

• Choose low-cost locations and regions.

• Provision connected resources that are bandwidth metered in the same region to reduce egress traffic between them.

• Research available cost-saving offers.

• Apply tags to identify cost owners.