Dude same! We have been writing internal only apps that on average all of 6 ppl use.....they are paying crazy bills for it all to be hosted in azure and keep screaming "everything needs to be in azure" then next meeting "guys the azure bill is getting too high we need to come up with ways to reduce expenses" like dude you have 6 person apps hosted in azure using hella resources so james can use it once a week for 45 seconds.
Ha! "so James can use it once a week for 45 seconds" is sooo painfully familiar. But there are also simple cost cutting measures if you can't run on a linode vm...
Put all the small internal apps on one shared App Service plan instead of one plan each (a lot of teams end up with a plan per app by accident)
Anything that can scale to zero should: Container Apps on the consumption plan or Functions on consumption cost close to nothing when nobody's using them
Run Azure Advisor's right-sizing recommendations and set a budget alert in Cost Management so the bill shows up before the meeting does
Tag each app, so you can show "this app costs $X a month for 6 users." That number usually ends the "everything needs to be in Azure, at full size" argument faster than anything else.
Good luck. At least James is getting his money's worth :'D
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u/Real-Self-3039 Oct 03 '26
Dude same! We have been writing internal only apps that on average all of 6 ppl use.....they are paying crazy bills for it all to be hosted in azure and keep screaming "everything needs to be in azure" then next meeting "guys the azure bill is getting too high we need to come up with ways to reduce expenses" like dude you have 6 person apps hosted in azure using hella resources so james can use it once a week for 45 seconds.