# Azure App Service optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

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

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

## 3 inefficiencies

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- Azure App Service  CER-0306

### [Non-Production App Service Plans Running Higher Tiers During Off-Hours](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/non-production-app-service-plans-running-higher-tiers-during-off-hours)

Azure App Service Plans define the compute resources allocated to web applications and are billed continuously based on their pricing tier - regardless of whether the hosted apps are actively serving traffic. In non-production environments...

Compute

- Azure App Service  CER-0027

### [Outdated Azure App Service Plan](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/outdated-azure-app-service-plan)

Applications running on App Service V2 plans may incur higher operational costs and degraded performance compared to V3 plans. V2 uses older hardware generations that lack access to platform-level enhancements introduced in V3, including...

Compute

- Azure App Service  CER-0157

### [Idle Azure App Service Plan Without Deployed Applications](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/idle-azure-app-service-plan-without-deployed-applications)

App Service Plans continue to incur charges even when no applications are deployed. This can occur when applications are deleted, migrated, or retired, but the associated App Service Plan remains active. Without ongoing workloads, these...

Compute

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- [Azure Cognitive Services  10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cognitive-services)

- [Azure SQL  10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-sql)

- [Azure Managed Disks  9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-managed-disks)

- [Azure Blob Storage  7](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-blob-storage)

- [Azure AKS  6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-aks)

- [Azure Cosmos DB  6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cosmos-db)

- [Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-database-for-postgresql---flexible-server)

- [Azure Log Analytics  4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-log-analytics)

- [Azure App Service Plans  3](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-app-service-plans)

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