Azure
Seven Azure Cost Leaks I Keep Finding (and How to Close Each One)
Most Azure waste is not a bad architecture decision. It is a meter that kept running after its reason ended: a disk left behind by a deleted VM, a public IP nobody released, an empty App Service plan, a reservation nobody watches. This list covers seven common leaks, with how to find each one, how to fix it, and whether policy can stop it coming back, checked against Microsoft's documentation in September 2026.
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