Autonomous Discount Management for Azure Extends Support For Relational Databases in Early Access

While compute is often a top spend area, Azure relational databases also incur a sizable percent of an organization’s cloud costs. SQL Database, MySQL, and PostgreSQL together contribute to 20-40% of our customers’ total Azure usage, indicating cost optimization of these services can translate to significant savings.

Starting today, Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Azure supports Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Database for MySQL. Our proven automation now optimizes database costs, maximizing Effective Savings Rate (ESR) and reducing Commitment Lock-In Risk (CLR) without engineering overhead.

With this expansion, ProsperOps automates rate optimization across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud compute and database services.

How It Works and Benefits

Reservations for Azure relational databases services are more powerful and offer greater potential savings than their AWS counterparts. Unlike immutable AWS Reserved Instances for database services, Azure reservations can be adjusted up/down and applied to different resource types within a service. With automation, we ensure your commitments deliver maximum savings even when usage fluctuates.

ADM for Azure enables FinOps teams to operate with confidence in the efficiency of their cloud database spend. ProsperOps builds and maintains a portfolio of commitments that adapts to your dynamic database usage patterns. Our algorithms continuously monitor your database usage and take action on reservations to maximize savings and flexibility.

This launch includes support for the following services:

Azure SQL
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Elastic Pools
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for MySQL

In the context of these relational database services, Autonomous Discount Management for Azure offers familiar benefits:

Maximized savings – Our algorithms use advanced rate optimization strategies to maximize savings in response to changes in usage. ProsperOps automatically adjusts commitments downwards when usage decreases, so customers maintain superior Effective Savings Rates by minimizing waste.
Engineering and financial flexibility – ProsperOps safely increases coverage while minimizing risk of overcommitment. Adaptive Laddering maximizes flexibility by deploying commitments in small, frequent increments to enable regular expirations, rather than batch-purchasing. This affords engineering teams freedom to change technical strategies without commitment constraints.
Increased FinOps productivity – You set constraints upfront to steer our algorithms, and ProsperOps takes over. Your team saves time and effort to tackle other strategic priorities.
Automated showback – Autonomous Discount Management for Azure comes with Intelligent Showback support for relational database services. It equitably reallocates your commitment costs and savings across business units, allowing your finance team to close the books with confidence.

ADM for Azure’s support for relational databases is now available in Early Access to new and existing ProsperOps customers.

New customers can sign up HERE.

If you are already a ProsperOps customer, you can visit the console to see your current usage and savings opportunities in Azure SQL, Azure Database for MySQL, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Request a Savings Analysis today, and a ProsperOps FinOps specialist will contact you to discuss your opportunity and eligibility.