Advisor Clinic: Lower costs with Azure Virtual Machine reservations | Azure Enablement

Priyanshi Mittal joins David Blank-Edelman to discuss the Azure Advisor recommendation 'Buy virtual machine reserved instances to save money over pay-as-you-go costs' and walks through what it means and discusses the the benefits. ✅ Resources:Azure Advisor performance recommendations documentation Azure Advisor in the Azure portalAzure Cost Management PowerBI App[00:00] Introduction[01:01] What's an Azure Reserved Instance, and how does it help me save money?[01:50] I understand about saving me money, but what's in it for Microsoft?[02:07] How does all of this work?[03:12] How are the Reserved Instances calculated, and how do I know I have maximized savings?[04:21] Does the recommendation from Azure Advisor take customer discounts into account?[04:39] Does the recommencation from Azure Advisor also take into account considerations from right-sizing VMs?[05:01] Is there a way to view all my Reservations and utilization before making further purchases? 📺 Related Episodes to watch next:Advisor Clinic: Upgrade your Azure Virtual Machines to premium disks Advisor Clinic: Upgrade your Azure Virtual Machines to managed disks Essential advice for improving your Azure workloads Pt. 1 Essential advice for improving your Azure workloads Pt. 2 🔴 Watch more episodes in the Well-Architected Series!