One of the key objectives that most organisations have when exploring Microsoft Azure is cost optimisation and management. This is not only a common business goal but often critical element (ROI) of the project as it forms the justification for moving to cloud & digitizing. ​

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Microsoft talk about Cost Optimisation in their Azure Well Architect Framework (WAF). WAF is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload. The framework consists of five pillars of architectural excellence. Microsoft advise that by incorporating these pillars helps produce a high quality, stable, and efficient cloud architecture. 

This free tool is a fantastic way to estimate the cost to run based on your expected architecture. ​