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An Azure Resource Group is a required grouping for all your Azure VMs. In this post, we’ll look into what this group structure actually means – and how you can use it for better governance and resource management for your infrastructure.

Welcome to the fourth article in our "Mastering Cloud Cost Optimization" series. I’m joining you from ParkMyCloud, a Turbonomic company that focuses on cloud cost optimization – in particular, scheduled workload suspension, which is what we’ll focus on in this article.

There is a cloud waste problem: most organizations using public cloud are wasting thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on cloud resources they’re not actually using. Whether it’s due to pre-production resources running 24x7, improperly sized resources, or resources that have simply been orphaned or forgotten, the wasted spend can grow to become a significant portion of a public cloud bill.