Azure Cost-Savings Opportunities, Summer ’23 Edition

• Updated pricing, service capabilities, and performance can help customers cut Azure costs.
• Deployment or process changes may be required to realize cost reductions enabled by the updates.
• Solutions that were previously not viable because of cost could now be possible with the updates.
• Organizations should stay abreast of ongoing updates as part of an overall Azure cost-management strategy.

Azure’s frequent updates can help customers deploy new solutions and functionality, but they also may enable cost reductions for existing deployments. Some recent changes, such as price reductions, cut costs without customer intervention, while others, such as new service capabilities, assist with customer efforts to cut costs.

Recent Azure Cost-Savings Updates

The effect of Azure updates on costs depends on customer solution designs and requirements. Updates that could cut costs fall into several categories, and the updates require various levels of IT expertise to be leveraged for savings. Following is an overview of potential cost-savings updates that have arrived over approximately the past nine months.