{"id":9526,"date":"2023-01-30T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/?p=9526"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:25:02","slug":"doing-more-with-less-internally-at-microsoft-with-microsoft-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/doing-more-with-less-internally-at-microsoft-with-microsoft-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing more with less internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"

We periodically update our stories, but we can\u2019t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

How do we at Microsoft get the best value from our Microsoft Azure environment? We\u2019ve been refining and optimizing the way we use the cloud for years, and as such, our answer isn\u2019t just about how much we\u2019ve been able to push down our monthly Azure bill.<\/p>\n

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Our migration from managing our own datacenters to Microsoft Azure has been a process of learning and growing. We\u2019ve moved more than 600 services and solutions comprised of approximately 1,400 components to Azure-based cloud technologies that require less specialized skill sets to use and provide quicker, more agile access to infrastructure and solutions.<\/p>\n

We at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, have led the organization’s move from the datacenter to the cloud, enabling best-in-class platforms and productivity services for the mobile-first, cloud-first world. This strategy harmonizes the interests of our employee users, our developers, and the team of IT implementers who provide the core of our IT operations.<\/p>\n

The freedom to provision resources in minutes instead of days has radically changed the way Microsoft Digital enables teams across the company to spin up the environments and resources they need on demand, which in turn empowers our engineering teams to respond more quickly to our evolving business needs.<\/p>\n

However, we\u2019ve found that easy provisioning and quick deployments can be costly. An unmanaged or undermanaged enterprise estate in Microsoft Azure can quickly lead to significant cloud billing costs and under-utilized resources.<\/p>\n

But in our journey to the cloud, we\u2019ve learned that there are many smart ways to optimize how you use the cloud\u2014tricks of the trade that we\u2019re using to keep our costs down while we transform the way we work.<\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll share the lessons we\u2019ve learned here at Microsoft regarding how you can fine-tune the use of Microsoft Azure at your company.<\/p>\n