# Azure Load Balancer optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

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3 documented Azure Load Balancer cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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3 documented Azure Load Balancer cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 3 inefficiencies

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- Azure Load Balancer  CER-0292

### [Idle Azure Load Balancers in Non-Production Environments](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/idle-azure-lb-in-non-prod-env)

Azure Load Balancers remain provisioned after the backend workloads they supported have been scaled down, stopped, or decommissioned. This is common in non-production environments where virtual machines are shut down outside business...

Networking

- Azure Load Balancer  CER-0223

### [Suboptimal Load Balancer Rule Configuration in Azure Standard Load Balancer](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/suboptimal-load-balancer-rule-configuration-in-azure-standard-load-balancer)

As organizations migrate from the Basic to the Standard tier of Azure Load Balancer (driven by Microsoft's retirement of the Basic tier), they may unknowingly inherit cost structures they didn't previously face. Specifically, each load...

Networking

- Azure Load Balancer  CER-0269

### [Inactive Azure Load Balancer](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/inactive-azure-load-balancer)

In dynamic environments - especially during autoscaling, testing, or infrastructure changes - it's common for load balancers to remain provisioned after their backend resources have been decommissioned. When this happens, the load balancer...

Networking

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