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Reduce Uptime and Costs for Azure Hosted Integration Runtimes

If you have a Self-Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR, or IR for short here) on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM), there’s a cost to keep it online. When used intermittently – for example during batch processes – this is inefficient for costs as you’re paying for the compute you don’t need. One way to alleviate this […]

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Reducing Azure Function Spend with Consumption Plans

A consumption based App Service Plan in Azure provides us with a pay-as-you-go model for Function usage. This can help reduce spend from Premium plans where those plans exceed the requirements of the function, for example low volume or intermittent work. Unfortunately you can’t move a Premium plan to Consumption based via the portal. Instead […]