# What costs Money - Cloud ?
- Services
- Storage
- Network Traffic (low costs)
- Software licenses (low costs)
# Options
- Azure Cost Management & Billing
- Azure Advisor
scaling up - better hardware = “vertical scaling” scaling down scaling in …
# General Cost Reductions
- Defining Policies
- Scale to the right tiers
- Clean up unused resources
- Autoscaling (in/down)
# SettingUp Budget
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