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SergeyRiabtsev
Jun 20, 2025Copper Contributor
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...
Kidd_Ip
Jun 21, 2025MVP
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.