Optimizing Compute Costs in Azure

Why should you attend:

When everybody talks about the economic recession, many companies try to reduce their cloud bills even more than usual. Compute resources usually contribute to the largest portion of those costs, making them the number one target for cost optimization initiatives. Despite cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, offering many tools, approaches, and guidelines for optimizing cloud compute costs, many companies still stick to very few options without looking at the larger picture.

In this session, Andrew Matveychuk, a Cloud Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, will share with you the details of the most common mistakes in compute cost optimization and how you can avoid them when optimizing costs in your Microsoft Azure environments.

What you’ll learn:

• Top mistakes in optimizing compute cost in Azure.
• How to do it the right way: assess, clean, resize, rehost, automate, commit.
• The challenges of compute cost optimization at enterprise scale and how to address them.
• Tools are important, but they are not enough to keep your costs under control.
• Finding a balance between cost reduction and your cloud security posture.