Insights
Field notes from Azure and Microsoft 365 work.
Practical, technical-business guides on the decisions that move the bill, the risk, and the day-to-day of running Microsoft cloud.
Right-sizing without the drama
Right-sizing is one of the fastest ways to reduce Azure waste, but only when decisions are based on workload evidence, business context, and controlled change.
Azure Blob Storage redundancy: choosing resilience without overpaying
Blob redundancy is a cost, availability, and recovery decision. LRS, ZRS, GRS, GZRS, and read-access variants protect against different failures, but none of them replace backup or application recovery design.
Reserved Instances: when to use them
Reserved Instances can lower Azure cost for stable workloads, but the commitment only works when usage, scope, and architecture are stable enough to justify it.
Spot VMs: when to use them
Spot VMs can cut Azure compute cost for interruptible work, but the discount only makes sense when eviction is part of the workload design.