3 documented Azure Reservations cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.
Azure ReservationsCER-0145
When reservations are scoped only to a single subscription, any unused capacity cannot be applied to matching resources in other subscriptions. This leads to underutilization of the committed reservation and continued on-demand charges in...
Azure ReservationsCER-0150
As workloads evolve, Azure Reserved Instances (RIs) may no longer align with actual usage - due to refactoring, region changes, autoscaling, or instance-type drift. When this happens, the committed usage goes unused, while new workloads...
Azure ReservationsCER-0403
When an Azure reservation reaches the end of its term without automatic renewal or a replacement purchase, the covered VMs, databases and other resources keep running normally but are charged pay-as-you-go rates from that moment. Nothing...
