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I. Introduction
Brief on Azure’s popularity and cloud advantages
Challenge: Escalating costs due to inefficient resource management
II. What is Azure Cost Optimization?
Definition and goal
Why best practices must be customized to your project
Importance of usage analysis and identifying inefficiencies
III. Why Optimizing Azure Costs is Important?
3.1 Improved Cost-Effectiveness
3.2 Efficient Resource Utilization
3.3 Compliance and Governance Benefits
IV. What are the Top Azure Cost Optimization Techniques?
4.1 Azure Right-Sizing
4.2 Azure Storage Access Tiers
4.3 Azure Hybrid Benefit
4.4 Identifying Hidden Costs
4.5 Azure Elastic Databases
4.6 Tagging and Resource Organization
4.7 Turn Off Unused/Idle Resources
4.8 Configure Auto-scaling for VMs
4.9 Use Server-less Architecture
4.10 Azure Dev/Test Pricing Models
4.11 Review and Optimize Azure Subscriptions
V. What are the Azure Cost Optimization Tools?
5.1 Azure Cost Management and Billing
5.2 Azure Advisor
5.3 Azure Pricing Calculator
5.4 Azure Monitor
5.5 Azure Resource Graph
VI. Which Factors That Impact Azure Cost Optimization?
6.1 Pricing Models (Pay-as-you-go, Reserved, Spot, Hybrid)
6.2 Resource Type
6.3 Service Type
6.4 Location
6.5 Billing Zones
VII. Conclusion
Final thoughts: Buy only what you need, not what’s trending
