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Azure cost checklist

Work through your Azure cost checklist.

The workbook contains 88 checks, shows where to look in Azure, and totals your own monthly saving estimates. No email is required.

Download the Azure cost checklist (Excel)
  1. 01

    Set your baseline

    Record your Azure spend and the workloads that are critical before you start checking individual resources.

  2. 02

    Work through the checks

    Use the workbook to review cost management, compute, commitments, hosting, databases, storage, networking, and observability.

  3. 03

    Record what you find

    Mark each check, note the evidence, and add your own monthly saving estimate.

  4. 04

    Review the result

    The results tab totals the findings so you can see the value identified in your own environment.

  5. 05

    Decide what is safe

    The checklist shows where to look. It does not replace the workload-specific judgement needed before a production change.