Strategies to Reduce Premium SSD LRS Storage Costs for Azure VMs

Question

Hello Community,

We’re looking for the best ways to manage and reduce our Premium SSD LRS storage fees for our Azure VMs. While Premium SSD offers great performance, the associated storage costs have become a significant part of our budget.

Has anyone successfully optimized or reduced these storage costs without compromising too much on performance? We’d appreciate any strategies, best practices, or alternative configurations that could help balance cost with performance needs.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Best regards,
Hamza,

Answer 1

Hi @Ham C

Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum and thanks for posting your query here!

To manage and reduce your Premium SSD LRS storage costs for Azure VMs while maintaining performance, here are few strategies which you can consider:

1. Right-Size Your Disks: Evaluate the size of your Premium SSDs. Use the smallest size that meets your performance needs. For example, starting with P30 disks (5000 IOPS/200 MBps) for data and log files can provide a good balance of cost and performance.
2. Use Storage Spaces: Implement Storage Spaces to optimize performance. Configure two pools—one for log files and another for data files. This can help you manage IOPS and throughput more effectively.
3. Monitor Performance Requirements: Regularly assess your workloads to ensure that the IOPS and throughput provided by your disks match your performance requirements. Adjust disk sizes or types as necessary based on your usage patterns.
4. Consider Disk Scaling: If demand increases, you can change the performance tier of your Premium SSDs without changing their size. This allows you to prepare for higher demand without incurring unnecessary costs.
5. Evaluate Transaction Mix: If your transactions per terabyte (TPB/TB) ratio is high (over 30 or 35 TPB/TB), consider whether moving to Premium storage is justified based on your performance needs and cost considerations.

Here is the similar thread which will be help full:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/67027/questions-about-storage

Hope by implementing these strategies, you can optimize your storage costs while still benefiting from the performance advantages of Premium SSDs.

Refer to the Price details for the new Standard SSD

Additional references:

• Storage: Performance best practices for SQL Server on Azure VMs
• Cost recommendations

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

Please do consider to "Accept the answer” and “up-vote” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.