https://blog.terakedis.dev/tags/azure/ Recent content in Azure on Robert Terakedis Hugo -- gohugo.io en Copyright © 2020 Robert Terakedis; all rights reserved. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.terakedis.dev/post/the-300k-spreadsheet/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.terakedis.dev/post/the-300k-spreadsheet/ <p>Last year I got pulled into a project where the team was drowning in spreadsheets. Not the good kind, but rather the unfortunate kind: manual user provisioning lists, copy-paste operations between systems, and a recurring cloud bill that kept climbing because of over-provisioned resources sitting idle.</p> <p>The kicker? Along with all the manual inefficiences, we incurred $300,000/year in overprovisioned cloud spend. And that was before we even talked about the staff time or the risk of things breaking when a step in the process was missed.</p>