Insights · Azure FinOps, from the people who build the checks
Deep, practical guides on finding and eliminating Azure waste — written by the team behind the CloudFinOpsKit Tool's 75+ cost checks. Real meter behaviour, real CLI commands, real traps we've hit so you don't have to.
The complete working checklist — compute, storage, network, databases, commitments, licensing, monitoring and AI workloads — grouped the way a real cost review runs.
Azure Cost Management, Advisor, Microsoft's FinOps toolkit, CloudFinOpsKit, and the enterprise platforms — what each actually does, what it costs, and when you've outgrown it.
Portal, Resource Graph and CLI methods — plus the false positives that burn people: Site Recovery replica disks, backup snapshots, and disks on stopped VMs.
Who qualifies, who doesn't (Dev/Test subscriptions, Windows client VMs, SQL Express/serverless), the 8-core minimum, and the exact CLI to find every VM not using it.
Discount depth vs flexibility, use-it-or-lose-it utilization, exchange rules, the Dev/Test subscription myth, and the layering strategy mature teams use.
Why every major cloud now emits FOCUS natively, the core columns, how to turn it on in Azure Cost Management, and why it makes your cost data AI-ready.
