INSIGHTS
Notes from inside mid-market Azure tenants.
What we keep finding, what it costs, and what actually closes the loop. Written by the person doing the work, not by a marketing team.
The Azure discount you already paid for
Azure Hybrid Benefit applies licences you may already own. Microsoft's own documentation explains why it so often goes unclaimed, and why nobody notices.
Your dev VMs are off. Azure is still billing them.
Shutting a virtual machine down from inside the guest operating system does not stop the compute charge. Only deallocation does, and from the desk the two look identical.
What Azure Advisor does not do
Advisor is a better detector than people give it credit for. It is not an owner, an approver, or an auditor. That gap is where the money stays.
Azure reserved instances vs savings plans: how to decide
When an Azure reservation beats a savings plan, when it does not, how to split the two, and what the February 2027 exchange change does to the decision.
Why did our Azure bill go up? A 30-minute diagnosis
A step-by-step Cost Analysis procedure to find what drove an Azure bill increase: rule out billing effects, then trace service, day, resource, meter and owner.
How to reduce Log Analytics costs and keep the logs you need
Find which tables drive your Log Analytics bill, cut ingestion at the source, move verbose tables to Basic or Auxiliary, and fix retention. Queries included.
See where your Azure money is leaking.
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