Is there any possibility of optimizing azure applications to reduce the billing charges and performance.

Waiting for the prompt reply

Hi,

There are several ways to optimize your Azure applications:

• Deploy two or more instances to qualify for the SLA
• Allocate a compute instance of the right size as per the application's requirements
• Make use of our free inbound data transfers to upload data to Azure
• Allocate compute and storage in the same region. All data transfers within a region are free
• Use Content Distribution Network (CDN) to reduce cost and improve performance
• Delete your test application immediately after your test concludes. Azure staging environment is not free. Whenever an application is deployed (even in staging), you will get charged. You can also deploy the application locally using the Azure SDK until you are comfortable deploying to the Azure cloud.
• Allocate the right sized SQL Database based on your needs.

Regards,
Azam khan

Hi,

There are several ways to optimize your Azure applications:

• Deploy two or more instances to qualify for the SLA
• Allocate a compute instance of the right size as per the application's requirements
• Make use of our free inbound data transfers to upload data to Azure
• Allocate compute and storage in the same region. All data transfers within a region are free
• Use Content Distribution Network (CDN) to reduce cost and improve performance
• Delete your test application immediately after your test concludes. Azure staging environment is not free. Whenever an application is deployed (even in staging), you will get charged. You can also deploy the application locally using the Azure SDK until you are comfortable deploying to the Azure cloud.
• Allocate the right sized SQL Database based on your needs.

Regards,
Azam khan

• Marked as answer by Rosi Accent 15 hours 24 minutes ago

Hi,

There are several ways to optimize your Azure applications:

• Deploy two or more instances to qualify for the SLA
• Allocate a compute instance of the right size as per the application's requirements
• Make use of our free inbound data transfers to upload data to Azure
• Allocate compute and storage in the same region. All data transfers within a region are free
• Use Content Distribution Network (CDN) to reduce cost and improve performance
• Delete your test application immediately after your test concludes. Azure staging environment is not free. Whenever an application is deployed (even in staging), you will get charged. You can also deploy the application locally using the Azure SDK until you are comfortable deploying to the Azure cloud.
• Allocate the right sized SQL Database based on your needs.

Regards,
Azam khan

• Marked as answer by Rosi Accent Monday, July 06, 2015 3:53 PM

Thanks

Hi Rosi, to add on to Azam's notes, there are a few other pointers that you can follow-

1) Monitor your Azure resource consumption using the Azure Usage API (links below) to get a granular understanding of how much you are using.

2) Monitor the service intelligence data of your resources and scale up and scale down instances (if you are running 5 VM instances and all of them are running at 20% capacity, you might want to scale down..)

Some links:

High-level   article describing the IT Financial Management scenario with Azure Billing   APIs	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/
ScottGu's   blog post describing the Azure Billing APIs	https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-azure-billing-apis-available
Azure   BillingCodeSamples GitHub Repo	https://github.com/Azure/BillingCodeSamples
Usage  REST API Reference on MSDN	https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/1ea5b323-54bb-423d-916f-190de96c6a3c

• Edited by Moinak Bandyopadhyay 11 hours 42 minutes ago

Hi Rosi, to add on to Azam's notes, there are a few other pointers that you can follow-

1) Monitor your Azure resource consumption using the Azure Usage API (links below) to get a granular understanding of how much you are using.

2) Monitor the service intelligence data of your resources and scale up and scale down instances (if you are running 5 VM instances and all of them are running at 20% capacity, you might want to scale down..)

Some links:

High-level   article describing the IT Financial Management scenario with Azure Billing   APIs	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/
ScottGu's   blog post describing the Azure Billing APIs	https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-azure-billing-apis-available
Azure   BillingCodeSamples GitHub Repo	https://github.com/Azure/BillingCodeSamples
Usage  REST API Reference on MSDN	https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/1ea5b323-54bb-423d-916f-190de96c6a3c

• Edited by Moinak Bandyopadhyay Monday, July 06, 2015 7:34 PM