How to Control Running Cloud Cost Using Azure Virtual Machine

The cost of running virtualized resources such as servers, applications, and data in the cloud can exceed the expected budget set by an organization if proper checks are not put in place to help control or check excessive spending.

This blog post, which was on the TechDirectArchive blog, takes a look at the various ways you can control running cloud costs using Azure VMs by carrying out some specific tasks ranging from shutting down your unused VMs, resizing the OS disk, and disassociating the NIC Public IP (PIP) Address attached to your VM to using reserved VM Instances (RI's) as one of the programmatic ways of controlling the overhead cost of powering your VM workloads on Azure. Click here to read more