Architect workloads in Azure for long-term efficiency and growth. Consolidate VM count and transition applications to containers using the discovery and assessment tool in Azure Migrate. Use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and DevOps practices for more efficient workload management. Increase capacity at any scale and work across different data types using SQL Serverless architecture.

Azure Expert, Matt McSpirit, joins Jeremy Chapman to share cloud-native approaches to run workloads in Azure for reduced costs.

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00:00 - Introduction

01:06 - Consolidate VM count

02:35 - Assessment and migration options

04:01 - AKS-specific options

05:34 - Management processes

06:37 - Efficiency for data backend

07:39 - Paths for cloud analytics and AI

08:16 - Query efficiency and compat levels

09:47 - Wrap up

► Link References:

Quick ways to reduce Azure costs at https://aka.ms/CostReductionMechanics

How to change the compat level at https://aka.ms/SQL22Mechanics

More ideas for workload efficiency at https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL

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