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Read the technical approach before you act on a costly Azure system.

The Magrid cost-reduction case covers a resource-by-resource Azure review with the CTO. From an around-EUR-4,500 monthly baseline, roughly EUR 3,000 a month was removed without breaking production.

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Azure Cost · 8 min read

Your Azure bill went up and nothing changed. Here's what I check first.

Your Azure bill rose, nobody remembers changing anything, and the total is useless. Here is the order I use to find the service, resource, or discount that moved.

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Azure Cost · 8 min read

Your Azure bill went up and nothing changed. Here's what I check first.

Your Azure bill rose, nobody remembers changing anything, and the total is useless. Here is the order I use to find the service, resource, or discount that moved.

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Azure Cost · 8 min read

Azure Advisor tells you which VM is oversized. It doesn't tell you which one is load-bearing.

Azure Advisor can spot spare VM capacity. Before you resize production, check what the machine carries, when it peaks, what depends on it, and how you will roll back.

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Azure Cost · 9 min read

We cut a client's Azure bill by 65%. Here's why that number was available.

The saving did not come from a secret discount. It came from years of reasonable provisioning decisions that never received a deliberate second pass.

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Azure Cost · 8 min read

Who feels the bill? The reason grant-funded and investor-funded infrastructure is always overprovisioned.

Cloud waste is often an incentive problem: the person choosing capacity gets the immediate upside while someone else feels the bill much later.

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Azure Cost · 8 min read

Reserved Instances before rightsizing is how you lock in your overspend for a year.

A reservation can reduce the unit price of an oversized VM. It cannot make the VM efficient. Right-size the baseline before you commit to it.

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SQL & Reporting · 9 min read

The reports had been wrong for two years and nothing was broken.

The jobs completed, the dashboards loaded, and the totals looked plausible. Six to eight reporting columns were still telling the wrong story.

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SQL & Reporting · 10 min read

Hardcoded IDs in SQL views: a shortcut with no expiry date

The query keeps running after reference data changes. Here is how hardcoded IDs create silent reporting errors—and how to replace them safely.

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Azure Migration · 8 min read

Azure Saudi Arabia East: What to Check Before You Plan a Migration

Azure Saudi Arabia East is expected from Q4 2026. Check service availability, dependencies, data location, commitments, and pilot choice before planning a move.

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UAE Cloud · 9 min read

Data Sovereignty in the UAE: AWS vs. Azure for Dubai Enterprises

With the UAE PDPL now in force and local cloud regions from both AWS and Microsoft Azure, how do Dubai enterprises choose the right platform for data residency compliance?

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