Published: 20 March 2020
Summary
Microsoft continues to evolve its Azure sourcing programs, and negotiated discounts are a limited means to reduce costs. Sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders purchasing Azure services should leverage increased reservation options and Azure Hybrid Benefits to fully optimize costs.
Included in Full Research
- Model Projected Usage to Avoid Forfeiting Unused Prepayments
- Avoid Prepaid Commitments to Reduce Any Risk of Losing Payments
- Reduce Your Azure Spend With Dev/Test Subscriptions, Reservations and Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Approaches
- Special Offers for Visual Studio Subscribers for Development and Testing
- Azure Reservations Include Reserved VM Instances (RIs) and Reserved Capacity
- Azure Spot VMs Give Deeper Discounts for Interruptible Workloads
- BYOL Options Can Reduce Overall Spend on Azure (and Other Cloud IaaS Providers)
- Leverage the CSP Program for Azure Projects That Require Third-Party Managed Services and Reduce Unified Support Costs