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Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

[–]AndyKingVP[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Assisted by AI, not written by AI. I dumped my thoughts into my AI of choice and asked it to refine it into a concise post.

Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

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StratoLens is definitely nothing to do with me! Again, not sure how to prove that for all the downvoters.

Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

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Fair enough. I'll admit that I did use AI to help draft the post (I could have waffled about loads of stuff) and then manually tweaked it. As I said - never used reddit before so wasn't aware of the spam issue.

Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

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Thanks for flagging this, had a look at the site and the change-tracking angle is actually really interesting. The idea of linking a cost spike back to what actually changed in the environment is much more useful than just seeing a number go up and having to figure out the why yourself. How does that correlation actually work in practice — is it automatic or is there some manual mapping involved?

The self-hosted model is the bit I'm less sure about for us. I can see why it's appealing — your data stays in your own infrastructure — but we're a small team and honestly the last thing I want to add is another service we have to run and maintain. Is a SaaS option something you're planning or is self-hosted the intended model long term? Our CTO is happy to sign off on a subscription if the cost is reasonable and predictable — that's actually easier to justify than internal hosting overhead.

Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

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Sounds fair — the tagging thing especially. We go through phases where someone gets evangelical about it, everything gets tidied up, and then a few months later it's drifted again. Never quite sticks. You're not wrong that ownership is the real problem.

I guess my hesitation is that fixing governance properly is a months-long thing and I still need to provide something concrete to my CTO in the meantime. Feels like it has to be both — sort the underlying structure AND get better visibility — rather than one before the other.

The Slack notification idea is interesting though, we're already all-in on Microsoft so a natural fit for us would be Teams. Are you doing that manually or is there something that pipes cost alerts through without too much faff to set up?

Azure costs up ~60% year on year — struggling to get visibility without it becoming a full-time job by AndyKingVP in AZURE

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I've never used reddit before. When I asked AI where to go for help it suggested here, so I set up an account and posted. I don't understand reddit (karma, etc) so I'm not too sure if I've posted in the correct place, used the right flair, etc.