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Where is the best place to get help with Azure capacity planning?

Paul Costelloe 0 Reputation points
2023-02-20T10:25:50.2866667+00:00

I want to extrapolate my current usage to get some high level budget figures in advance of a big expansion project.

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  1. Prrudram-MSFT 22,976 Reputation points
    2023-02-20T10:30:52.7366667+00:00

    Hello @Paul Costelloe

    Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question

    Azure Advisor is a suitable place to start for help with Azure capacity planning. It provides recommendations for optimizing your cloud investment, reducing costs, and evaluating where your money is being spent. Azure Advisor can identify virtual machines with low utilization and provide recommendations for reserved instance purchases Additionally, Azure has many discounts that your organization can take advantage of to save money, such as Azure savings plan for compute and Azure Reservations.
    You can find more information about these discounts in the article "Optimize your cloud investment with Cost Management" at the following link:

    How to optimize your cloud investment with Cost Management

    Cost recommendations

    Please accept as answer and upvote if the above information is helpful for the benefit of the community.
    If you have any further questions, feel free to tag me in the comments.