Tips for Saving Money on Azure VM Costs
- Size of VM: Choose the right size of VMs based on the workload requirements.
- Azure Cost Management and Azure Budget: Make use of the various tools offered by Azure to monitor your usage, get alerts when costs cross a defined threshold, set budgets etc.
- Schedule Shutdown: You can configure the VMs to shut down automatically based on a schedule or when not in use. This helps to reduce the cost as VMs run only when in use.
- Azure Policies: Make use of Azure Policies to enforce cost controls in Azure.
- Cost Tags: You can track how much a department or a project is costing you using cost tags.
- Delete unused VMs: Regularly review your Azure Resources and delete unused or unnecessary VMs.
- Serverless Services: If possible, use serverless services offered by Azure such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure App Service which are capable of automatically scaling, hence eliminate the need to manage VMs.
Azure Virtual Machine Pricing
Virtual Machines are one of the computing resources offered by Microsoft Azure. These are available on-demand and are scalable. Virtual Machines offers more control over the computing environment. Virtual Machines provides the flexibility of Virtualization without the need to purchase physical hardware to run it.
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