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title: "[Corestack] Downsize databases in Azure"
url: "https://support.paratira.ai/en/article/corestack-downsize-databases-in-azure"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-07-04T12:28:32.417Z"
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# [Corestack] Downsize databases in Azure

The platform identifies oversized databases in Azure environments and recommends downsizing opportunities. Maintaining oversized databases leads to unnecessary resource consumption, increased costs, and higher environmental impact.

## Recommendation Impact Across KPIs

| KPI | Impact | Calculated? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Reliability:** | No impact identified | ❌ |
| **Security Compliance:** | No impact identified | ❌ |
| **Economic:** | No impact identified | ❌ |
| **User Experience:** | No impact identified | ❌ |
| **Environment:** | Reduction in carbon footprint calculated as: Current DB Carbon Usage - New Recommended DB Carbon Usage / Total Carbon Usage of all assets | ✅ |

## Score Calculation

### 1\. Data Ingestion

-   Database instance name
-   Current database size
-   Current resource utilization
-   Carbon usage metrics

### 2\. Data Enrichment

-   Mapping to Azure resource metrics
-   Recommended database size
-   Carbon usage optimization potential

### 3\. Health Score

-   Calculate the Environmental Health score based on potential carbon reduction
-   Score derived from the ratio of potential carbon savings to total carbon usage

## Example Graph

This recommendation is an update to KPI pillar scoring - visualization not applicable for this update.

## Business Opportunities

### Product Sales Opportunity

Not applicable - This is an update to KPI pillar scoring referring to original recommendation ID.

### Professional Services Opportunity

Not applicable - This is an update to KPI pillar scoring referring to original recommendation ID.

## Remediation Guidance

Not applicable - This is an update to KPI pillar scoring referring to original recommendation ID.

## Supporting Information

### Supported Data Sources

-   Azure Advisor
-   CoreStack

### Recommendation Categorisation

-   Database Optimization
-   Resource Management
-   Environmental Impact

### Supported Instances

-   Azure SQL Database
-   Azure Managed Instance
-   Azure Synapse Analytics

### Planned Instances

-   Azure Database for PostgreSQL
-   Azure Database for MySQL
-   Azure Cosmos DB

Note: This recommendation focuses on environmental impact calculation updates for database sizing in Azure environments.