This white paper explains that while Azure accelerates digital transformation through scalability, security, compliance, and modern AI capabilities, costs often spiral without strong governance, visibility, and right-sizing, with cited research estimating significant cloud waste. It describes why overspend happens (ungoverned costs, unanticipated usage, lack of commitments, dev/test waste, excess headroom, wrong sizing, and suboptimal design) and recommends seven practical cost optimization moves: regularly assess architecture using Microsoft Well-Architected and related readiness tools, use Azure Advisor to optimize workloads, track spend with Azure Cost Management and Billing using budgets and allocation, estimate new project costs with Azure pricing and TCO calculators, use savings prog

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