Azure Cost Optimisation: Essential Checklist to Stop Waste
Azure cost optimisation is the practical work of making sure every pound on your Azure invoice buys something the business actually needs. This checklist walks the whole estate in the order that pays best: triage the waste, rightsize and schedule compute, buy reservations and savings plans in the right sequence, claim Azure Hybrid Benefit, tier storage with lifecycle policies, tidy the quiet networking and logging line items, then lock it in with tagging, Azure Policy guardrails, budgets and anomaly alerts. It closes with a worked saving example, a 90-day rollout plan for a small IT team, and the five mistakes that quietly undo the whole exercise.
