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Maximize Your Savings with Azure Advisor’s Cost Optimization Workbook

Sarah Lean
4 min readJul 23, 2024

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Maximize Your Savings with Azure Advisor’s Cost Optimization Workbook

The Azure Cost Optimization workbook is an invaluable tool designed to help you efficiently manage and optimise your Azure spending. By providing a detailed overview of your Azure environment, it offers actionable insights and recommendations grounded in the Well-Architected Framework’s Cost Optimization pillar.

This workbook is readily available FREE to all Azure users, and there’s an editable version as part of the FinOps toolkit for more tailored needs.

Getting Started

If you haven’t yet explored this feature, getting started is a breeze. The workbook template is available in the Azure Advisor gallery and requires no initial setup. Here’s how to begin:

  • Navigate to the Azure Advisor blade within the Azure Portal
  • Down the left-hand side menu find “Workbooks” and click on it
Azure Portal
  • You will find the “Cost Optimization” workbook under the Azure Advisor workbook list

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Sarah Lean
Sarah Lean

Written by Sarah Lean

Community Speaker — Lifelong Learner — Founder of the Glasgow Azure User Group

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