Intelligent FinOps in Azure

Apr 26, 2024

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Leverage FinOps in Azure to optimize your cloud spend and drive accountability across your organization. With Microsoft Cost Management, gain complete visibility into your cloud costs, track spending by department or project, and forecast future expenses. Utilize management groups, subscriptions, and tags to organize costs and allocate resources efficiently, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.

Make informed decisions with proactive cost reduction recommendations from Azure Advisor and architectural best practices like Azure Landing Zones. Operationalize FinOps practices with centralized management focus and continuous evaluation through the FinOps Review assessment.

Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, shows how to improve your organization's capability and operational agility with FinOps on Azure.

► QUICK LINKS:

00:00 - Improve control on Azure through FinOps 01:01 - Gain visibility and accountability over Cloud spend 02:11 - Track and report spending 03:28- How to track costs 04:14 - Tagging resources 05:57 - Optimized efficiency07:02 - Maintain FinOps practices 08:05 - Wrap up

► Link References

How to implement FinOps on Azure at https://aka.ms/FinOps

Leverage Cloud Adoption Framework guidance at https://aka.ms/C-A-F-Tagging

Click-through demos at https://aka.ms/finops/guides

FinOps Review assessment at https://aka.ms/finops/review

Start using Microsoft Cost Management at https://aka.ms/CostManagement

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