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|**Cluster and workload architectures:** Align SKU selection and managed disk size with workload requirements.|Matching your selection to your workload demands ensures you don't pay for unneeded resources.|
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|**Cluster and workload architectures:** Adopt a cloud financial discipline and cultural practice to drive ownership of cloud usage. | The foundation of enabling cost optimization is the spread of a cost saving cluster. A [financial operations approach (FinOps)](https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/) is often used to help organizations reduce cloud costs. It is a practice involving collaboration between finance, operations, and engineering teams to drive alignment on cost saving goals and bring transparency to cloud costs.|
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|**Cluster architecture:** Cost visibility by measuring container costs and resource allocation.|OpenCost introduces a new [community-driven specification](https://github.com/opencost/opencost/blob/develop/spec/opencost-specv01.md) and accompanying implementation to bring greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation. OpenCost is an open-source, vendor-neutral [CNCF sandbox project](https://www.cncf.io/sandbox-projects/) that recently became a [FinOps Certified Solution](https://www.finops.org/certifications/finops-certified-solution/).|
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|**Cluster architecture:** Cost visibility by measuring container costs and resource allocation.|[OpenCost](https://www.opencost.io/docs/) introduces a new [community-driven specification](https://github.com/opencost/opencost/blob/develop/spec/opencost-specv01.md) and accompanying implementation to bring greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation. OpenCost is an open-source, vendor-neutral [CNCF sandbox project](https://www.cncf.io/sandbox-projects/) that recently became a [FinOps Certified Solution](https://www.finops.org/certifications/finops-certified-solution/).|
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|**Cluster architecture:** Utilize AKS cluster pre-set configurations. | It can be difficult choosing the right VM instance, region, number of nodes, availability zones, etc. when trying to strike a balance between cost and resource requirements. From the Azure portal, the **cluster preset configurations** option helps offload this initial challenge by providing a set of recommended configurations that are cost-conscious and performant regardless of environment. Mission critical applications may require more sophisticated VM instances, while small development and test clusters may benefit from the lighter-weight, pre-set options where availability, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and other features are turned off by default. The **Dev/Test** and **Cost-optimized** pre-sets help remove unnecessary added costs.|
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|**Cluster and workload architectures:** Use the [Start and Stop feature](start-stop-cluster.md) in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).|The AKS Stop and Start cluster feature allows AKS customers to pause an AKS cluster, saving time and cost. The stop and start feature keeps cluster configurations in place and customers can pick up where they left off without reconfiguring the clusters.|
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|**Workload architecture:** Consider using [Azure Spot VMs](spot-node-pool.md) for workloads that can handle interruptions, early terminations, and evictions.|For example, workloads such as batch processing jobs, development and testing environments, and large compute workloads may be good candidates for you to schedule on a spot node pool. Using spot VMs for nodes with your AKS cluster allows you to take advantage of unused capacity in Azure at a significant cost savings.|

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