The Azure Cost Optimization Playbook

Reduce, reserve, rightsize. The buyer side framework for ongoing Azure cost optimization across enterprise estates.

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Read Time 22 Minutes

Last Updated May 2026

What you will take away

The Reserved Instance versus Savings Plan decision and when each fits
How to rightsize compute, storage, and database SKUs without throttling workload
The Hybrid Benefit math for Windows Server and SQL Server
The FinOps disciplines that protect against drift between optimization sprints
How MACC commit math interacts with reservation pricing

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Written byFredrik FilipssonCo Founder & Group CEO · ex Oracle, IBM, SAP

PublishedJanuary 1, 2020

Last updatedNovember 7, 2024

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Reservations and Hybrid Benefit alone reduced our Azure run rate by 38 percent without throttling a single production workload. The playbook turned a year of FinOps drift into a quarter of structured optimization.

VP Cloud Engineering, Fortune 500 Insurance

$8.4M Azure run rate, multi region

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