A practical guide to right-sizing MI, aligning storage and reclaiming licence value.
Managed Instance can quietly become one of the larger line items on an Azure invoice. This piece walks through a five-step cost-tuning workflow: workload segmentation, right-sizing by peak-p95 not peak-max, storage tier alignment, backup retention review and Azure Hybrid Benefit verification. Applied together, these steps typically reduce cost meaningfully within a single billing cycle.