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Managing costs

Managing costs - Azure Tutorial

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Managing costs

- [Instructor] Cost management is key once you're in the cloud. And in this video, we're going to be exploring some best practices for managing costs and setting budgets. So why is cost management important? Cost management is an important aspect of running any business and H+ are keen to effectively plan and control any costs associated with our Azure migration. Now, it's easy to manage costs in Azure so let's look at what options we have. The Azure Cost Management and Billing feature in Azure is designed to help you plan with costs in mind. Firstly, cost management offers you a way to analyze and explore your costs. You can view aggregated costs for your account or view accumulated costs over time. You can even create budgets and configure alerts that warn you if you're close to exceeding them. Cost management can also help you to perform optimizations by providing recommendations. They can identify idle or underused…

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