Bill Anton walks through some of the basics of managing an Azure Analysis Services cube:
The quickest win – from an ROI perspective – for Azure AS is the ability to pause the instance during extended periods of inactivity – for example, at night, when there aren’t any users running reports.
This can be achieved via the Suspend-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer cmdlet we saw in the previous post.
Read on for a few tips of this ilk, including resizing the server.