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Costtrail summarizes the month-to-date usage highlights and optimization opportunities, providing actionable insights for cost savings and resource optimization.

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Cost Optimization with Azure

Azure is a popular in-memory data structure store used for caching, real-time analytics, and as a primary database. Leveraging Azure features and best practices can help you manage and optimize your costs effectively, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining high performance and reliability.

Azure Pricing Models:

Consolidation

Azure Consolidation Strategies

Benefit from Consolidated

Insights with Comprehensive Dashboards
Gain a holistic view of your Azure cost management with intuitive dashboards. Monitor critical cost details, including month-to-date expenses, month-end forecasted costs, and saved reports, all in one place.

Automated Trend Analysis

Utilize Azure's automated
Utilize Azure's automated trend analysis to identify anomalous cost and usage events. By leveraging historical patterns, you can detect irregularities and take proactive measures to manage your spending effectively.

Optimized User Experience

Experience an enhanced
Experience an enhanced user interface designed for users of all expertise levels within your organization. Easily onboard and confidently navigate Azure Cost Management + Billing to meet diverse cost management needs.
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  • Analyze the utilization of existing Reserved Instances (RIs) and the resulting savings achieved.
  • Determine the percentage of hours utilized by RIs and the corresponding cost savings (calculated as the difference between Pay-As-You-Go and RI costs).
  • Generate reports including RI amortization.
  • Applicable for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, and other Azure services that support reservations.
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  • Receive personalized Reservation Recommendations to optimize savings, utilization, and cost commitment.
  • Available for Azure services such as Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, and more.
  • Tailor recommendation parameters to align with your preferences, including payment options and term duration.
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  • Overcome the challenges of identifying optimization opportunities at scale with customized Google Compute Engine Rightsizing Recommendations.
  • Access a comprehensive view across regions and projects to identify optimization opportunities efficiently.
  • Filter recommendations based on Labels, Region, or Project.
  • Identify idle and underutilized instances with integrated Stackdriver Monitoring data.
  • Act on actionable recommendations provided for downsizing or terminating instances.
  • Quantify potential savings based on recommended actions and assess the impact of commitments on overall savings.

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Azure Success Metrics

- Average Daily Spend ($)
- Monthly Forecast vs Actual ($)
- Untagged Resources ($)
- Turned Off Instances (%)
- RI Coverage and Utilization (%)
- Saved Costs ($)
- Underutilized Resources (#)
- Cost per User or Transaction ($)
- Cost per Impression or Click ($)
- Cost per Request ($)
- Cost per Application Unit ($)
- Cost per Revenue ($)
- Cost per Developer ($)
- Hours per Dollar Invested (#)

VM RI Range for savings

- payment Option - No Upfront, Partial Upfront, All Upfront
- Duration - 1 year or 3 year
- Operating System - Windows, Linux
- Instance Type - Old Generation, New Generation
- Type - Convertible, Standard