Name: Optimizing Azure Cloud Spend: Practical + AI-Driven Strategies
Start: 2025-05-13T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-13T20:00:00-05:00

**Presentation Goals**

* Educate attendees on cloud cost challenges and best practices.
* Showcase how AI enhances traditional cost management strategies in Azure.

**The Foundation - General Cloud Cost Management Strategy**

* Understand What You Use (Tagging, Resource Grouping, Monitoring, Dashboard, Reporting)
* Use the Right Pricing Models (Pay-as-you-go, Reserved Instances, Spot VMs, Azure Hybrid Use Benefits)
* Eliminate Waste (Orphaned resources, idle VMs, zombie disks, storage lifecycle & tiering)
* Governance & Budgets (Azure Policy, Management Groups, Budget Alerts, Cost Allocation)
* Serverless Compute Model (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Functions, Containerized Microservices, App Services, Azure Storage)

**AI-Powered Azure Cost Management Strategy**

* Azure Cost Management + AI Recommendations
* Cost anomalies detection such as sudden spike in resource utilization
* Cost and Budget Forecasting
* Utilize Copilot in natural language to get cost details and recommendations

Our speaker tonight is long-time Community member [Sal Bawany](https://www.linkedin.com/in/salbawany/), a Solution Architect at Long View Systems. Sal is based in Houston and will be presenting in person!

Food and soft drinks will be served at \~5:30pm on the 10th floor - we will kick off the discussion there @6pm after everyone has had a chance to eat, meet anyone else you'd like to and have a chat :-). Feel free to start arriving from 5pm on if you are nearby. PLEASE RSVP so we have an accurate food count.

**PARKING:** For free parking please park across the street on the third and fourth floors of the parking garage at 12711 Queensbury; parking in the Microsoft building is *not* free

**In-person:** 750 Town and Country Blvd #1000 · Houston, TX
**Livestream:** [Link](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NGRiNzc4NzMtZDU2NC00Nzk0LTlmNGEtMTllMzJhMjk1NGFi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22661e4ff1-1e77-4009-8da2-3cc7dab4aca8%22%7d)
**Recording:** [https://www.youtube.com/@HoustonAzureUserGroup](https://www.youtube.com/@HoustonAzureUserGroup)

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