{"id":9674,"date":"2026-05-21T02:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:16:33","slug":"azure-cost-optimisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/azure-cost-optimisation","title":{"rendered":"Azure Cost Optimisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/ARI\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/ARI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MarcSteene\/AzureCostOptimizationReportingTool\">GitHub &#8211; MarcSteene\/AzureCostOptimizationReportingTool \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MoeKinani\/azure-cost-optimizer\">GitHub &#8211; MoeKinani\/azure-cost-optimizer: Self-hosted Azure cost intelligence tool \u2014 no SaaS, no data leaving your environment \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/finops-toolkit\">https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/finops-toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure Advisor<br>Cost Management<br>Reserved Instances<br>Hybrid Licenses<br>Automated Startup\/Shutdown<br>Standard SSDs instead of Premium.<br>Snapshots<br><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/fasttrackforazureblog\/azure-orphan-resources\/3492198\" title=\"Orphan Resource Workbook.\">Orphan Resource Workbook<\/a> &#8211; Disk \\ Public IPS <br>Blob storage lifecycle policies <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Azure-Samples\/storage-dotnet-blob-tier-analysis-tool\">GitHub &#8211; Azure-Samples\/storage-dotnet-blob-tier-analysis-tool: Lightweight utility to analyze blob storage for potential cost savings opportunities afforded by tiering to archive \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><br>Storage account <strong>replication tier<\/strong> (LRS vs GRS vs ZRS)<br>Backup Retention<br>Serverless tier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paid <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-turbo-360 wp-block-embed-turbo-360\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/turbo360.com\/pricing\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/ARI GitHub &#8211; MarcSteene\/AzureCostOptimizationReportingTool \u00b7 GitHub GitHub &#8211; MoeKinani\/azure-cost-optimizer: Self-hosted Azure cost intelligence tool \u2014 no SaaS, no data leaving your environment \u00b7 GitHub https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/finops-toolkit Azure AdvisorCost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9676,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}