# 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.
