u/matiticharo

We started pretty simple on Azure.

A few app services, SQL, storage, some functions, and a bit of AI/search workload.

Nothing crazy.

Then the product grew, more environments were added, more teams started shipping, and suddenly the Azure bill became hard to explain.

The annoying part is not only that costs went up.

It’s that it’s hard to know what is actually worth optimizing.

Some spend is real production usage.

Some is overprovisioned resources.

Some is old dev/test stuff nobody owns anymore.

Some is data, logs, networking, or managed services quietly getting expensive in the background.

Azure Cost Management helps, but I’m wondering how far people take it before using dedicated FinOps tools.

For teams running serious workloads on Azure, what actually helped?

Did you build your own tagging and dashboards?

Use Azure-native tools only?

Try FinOps platforms?

Set budgets and alerts?

Force teams to own their cloud spend?

Curious what worked in practice before Azure costs became a monthly surprise.

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