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The focus of this video is to help users identify idle resources within Azure deployments. Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) explains the importance of managing these idle resources, as they can accumulate over time and lead to unnecessary costs without providing any business value. Mike shows how users can utilize the cost analyzer module to identify idle networking resources such as virtual networks (vnets), IP addresses, and subnets. He explains the process of filtering and identifying idle resources within the Azure deployment, using a tree view to model the organization's cost data.

Discover the ways digital companies are leading the charge in creating a progressive future. Dive into how tech companies can be pioneers not just through innovative tools, but also by making a positive ecological, social, and economic impact. Join our speakers on a journey in discussing business sustainability in 2024. Speakers: Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh Gerhard Andrey, Co-Founder of Liip and National Councillor for the Swiss Green Party.

There are several techniques and tricks when developers are tasked with optimizing their Apache Spark workloads, but most of them only fix a portion of the problem when it comes to price and performance. Watch this conversation between AWS Senior Partner Solution Architect Shashi Raina and Pepperdata Senior Solution Architect Kirk Lewis to understand the underlying myths of Apache Spark optimization, and how to ultimately fix the issue of wasted cloud resources and inflated costs.