Top tips to optimize cost savings using free tools and plans as you run workloads in Azure. Identify unnecessary spend in Azure Advisor through cost cutting, take advantage of new commitment-based savings plans based on expected utilization, employ cost avoidance tactics, such as setting budgets and monitoring with Microsoft Cost Management, and contain spend through new automation options.

Matt McSpirit, Azure expert, shares quick ways to save money for existing Azure customers.

► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - Savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit 02:18 - Constrained vCPU options 03:30 - Commitment-based savings plans 05:03 - Savings plans and reserved instances 06:12 - Microsoft Cost Management 06:44 - Budget limits and automation runbooks 08:57 - Azure VM Scale Sets 11:24 - Storage cost management 13:00 - Tags 13:50 - Wrap up

► Link References:

Guidance for Azure cost savings at https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL

More on Azure Hybrid Benefit at https://aka.ms/HybridBenefit

Sample scripts for budget automation at https://aka.ms/ACMrunbook

Best practices for tagging at https://aka.ms/costmgmt/videos

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