Monday, October 21, 2024

Cloud Computing Cost Reduction - Microsoft Internal Cost Reduction of Azure Usage - 95% of the Applications Run on Azure

 

Adopt modern engineering practices

Cost optimization is one of the five components of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework, and each pillar functions best when supported by proper implementation of the other four. Adopting modern engineering practices that support reliability, security, operational excellence, and performance efficiency will help to enable better cost optimization in Microsoft Azure. This includes using modern virtual machine sizes where virtual machines are needed and architecting for Azure PaaS components such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Microsoft Azure SQL, and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service when virtual machines aren’t required. Staying aware of new Azure services and changes to existing functionality will also help you recognize cost-optimization opportunities as soon as possible.

Recent Cost Reduction Projects - that significantly reduced spending across numerous Microsoft Azure services. Examples,  include:

Right-sizing Microsoft Azure virtual machines. We generated more than 300 recommendations for VM size changes to increase cost efficiency. These recommendations included switching to burstable virtual machine sizes and accounted for a 15 percent cost savings.

Moving virtual machines to latest generation of virtual machine sizes. Moving from older D-series and E-series VM sizes to their current counterparts generated more almost 2,500 recommendations and a cost savings of approximately 30 percent.

Implementing Microsoft Azure Data Explorer recommendations. More than 200 recommendations were made for Microsoft Azure Data Explorer optimization, resulting in significant savings.

Incorporating Cosmos DB recommendations. More than 170 Cosmos DB recommendations reduced cost by 11 percent.

Implementing Microsoft Azure Data Lake recommendations. More than 30 Azure Data Lake recommendations combined to reduce costs by approximately 15 percent.

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