In Episode 122, Ben and Scott talk about strategies for saving money on virtual machines in Azure by stopping them when they’re not needed, right-sizing your workloads, and techniques for horizontal scaling with Azure autoscale.

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Show Notes

* Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution in Azure Automation

* Virtual machines lifecycle and states

* Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money

* Overview of autoscale in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, and Web Apps

* Webhooks: Integrating Microsoft Azure Automation with Slack

* Azure Autoscale

* Sizes for Windows virtual machines in Azure

* Sizes for Linux virtual machines in Azure

* Azure products available by region

* Azure Global Bootcamp Locations

Related Episodes

* Episode 17-Azure Automation

* Episode 105 - From AzureRm to Az in Azure Powershell

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