--- title: Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling:... description: Scaling cloud applications to match actual demand can meaningfully cut costs, even for small projects. Using a hypothetical local web application with 4... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/put-your-cloud-on-a-diet-or-windows-azure-and-scaling-why--fxfyi9qzj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling: why?) | daily.dev og:description: Scaling cloud applications to match actual demand can meaningfully cut costs, even for small projects. Using a hypothetical local web application with 4... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/put-your-cloud-on-a-diet-or-windows-azure-and-scaling-why--fxfyi9qzj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fXFyi9Qzj.png og:image:alt: Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling: why?) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling: why?) **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Scaling cloud applications to match actual demand can meaningfully cut costs, even for small projects. Using a hypothetical local web application with 4 Windows Azure web role instances running constantly, the fixed-instance cost is estimated at about $345.14 per month, while scaling instance counts up and down based on hourly demand (accounting for office hours and weekends) drops the estimate to about $219.31 per month, a savings of over $1200 yearly. This introductory post sets up a series that will later demonstrate how to actually implement automatic scaling for Windows Azure using .NET and PHP tooling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your Cloud Bill Has Outgrown Its Value. 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