# Azure App Service Plans optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

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3 documented Azure App Service Plans cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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3 documented Azure App Service Plans cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 3 inefficiencies

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- Azure App Service Plans  CER-0291

### [Overprovisioned Azure App Service Plan](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/overprovisioned-azure-app-service-plan)

An App Service Plan is sized larger than required for the applications it hosts. Plans are often provisioned conservatively to handle anticipated peak demand and are not revisited after workloads stabilize. Because pricing is tied to the...

Compute

- Azure App Service Plans  CER-0283

### [Mixing Production and Non-Production Applications in the Same App Service Plan](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/mixing-production-and-non-production-applications-in-the-same-app-service-plan)

Production and non-production applications are hosted within the same App Service Plan. Production workloads often require higher availability, performance, or scaling characteristics, driving the plan toward larger or higher-cost SKUs....

Compute

- Azure App Service Plans  CER-0404

### [Missing Reservations for Steady Premium v3 and Isolated v2 App Service Plans](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/missing-reservations-for-steady-premium-v3-and-isolated-v2-app-service-plans)

Production App Service plans on Premium v3 (or later) and Isolated v2 often run a fixed minimum instance count all year: a web front end that never scales below two or three instances, or an App Service Environment sized for a steady...

Compute

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