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Automate common cost optimizations

Automate common cost optimizations

Blog post for Azure back to school 2023

Erlend Rushfeldt
Most of the common Azure cost optimizations are quick-fixes. These could include Public IPs that have been forgotten, VM Snapshots that have been lying around for too long or VMs that are stopped, but not deallocated. To have good cost hygiene in your environment, you could automate this using Azure Automation. In this article, I will show you how to automate common cost optimizations. Please check out Azure Back to School for more good content from the Azure Community