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Anyone managing Azure budgets? Would love to hear how you're doing it
Hi everyone - I’m a founder working on a tool to help engineering and infra teams plan and monitor Azure cloud costs more effectively (especially when it comes to budgeting and forecasting).
I’m not selling anything - just trying to understand how teams currently handle:
- Planning Azure spend across teams or projects
- Staying within budget or tracking drift over time
- Forecasting costs based on changing usage
If you're involved in this (or have strong opinions about what Azure does well/poorly here), I’d love to hear your thoughts. Even a few sentences would be super helpful.
You can DM me here or just drop a quick comment. Happy to share what I’ve learned from others too. Thanks!
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Curious if you still run into any challenges with budget planning or actually controlling execution, even with these practices in place? Always interested in learning where the real friction still shows up.
Would like to share some practices:
- Standardize tagging and enforce with Azure Policy to ensure all resources are properly attributed.
- Set budgets and alerts at multiple levels (subscription, resource group, tag) for granular control.
- Review spend and utilization frequently—daily or weekly, not just at month-end.
- Use cost allocation rules to distribute shared costs fairly, supporting internal chargeback/showback.
- Leverage reserved instances and savings plans for predictable workloads to reduce costs.
- Automate reporting and anomaly detection where possible, using Azure Monitor or third-party integrations.
