Video of a conference talk about 10 things you can do today to reduce the cost of Azure Database for PostgreSQL, delivered at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023. This talk is for anyone who wants to reduce costs in their PostgreSQL spend in the cloud, whether you are an early-stage startup or a large enterprise with a global footprint.
One of the greatest benefits of running your application on PostgreSQL in the cloud is being able to scale up and down to meet demand and reduce operational expenditures. And that is especially true when you are experiencing unexpected changes in workload. With Flexible Server in the PostgreSQL managed service on Azure, you can take control of your costs and continuously optimize your cloud spend, while building modern, scalable applications to meet your customers’ needs.
Varun Dhawan is a Senior Product Manager @Microsoft where he works in Azure Open Source Database team focusing on PostgreSQL and Azure Monitor. Prior to Microsoft, Varun had worked at Target Corp, and McKinsey & Company on Observability, Database as a Service, and Cloud. ❤️
► Video bookmarks:
⏩ 00:00 Introduction
⏩ 06:31 10 ways to reduce your Flexible Server Cost
⏩ 06:59 1: Reserved capacity pricing
⏩ 08:49 2: Cheaper geo-regions
⏩ 11:11 3: Scale compute
⏩ 13:52 4: Azure Advisor
⏩ 16:15 5: Evaluate HA and DR
⏩ 19:08 6: Consolidate databases
⏩ 21:26 7: Starting and Stopping
⏩ 24:01 8: Archive old data
⏩ 26:07 9: Shutdown unused databases
⏩ 27:23 10: Budgets and alerts
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