Overview
Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (10-15%)
Describe methods for planning and managing costs
Identify factors that can affect costs (resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic)
Identify factors that can costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing)
Describe the functionality and usage of the Pricing calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management
Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and service lifecycle
Describe the purpose of Azure Service Level Agreements (SLA)
Identify factors that can impact an SLA (i.e Availability Zones)
Describe the service lifecycle in Azure (Public Preview and General Availability)
Factors affecting costs
Different services are billed based on different factors
Free Services
Resource groups
Virtual networks (up to 50)
Load balancer (basic)
Azure Active Directory (basic)
Network security groups
Free-tier web apps (up to 10)
Metered services
Tracking time
Tracking GB
Number of executions
Tracking traffic
Pay per usage model (consumption model)
Opportunity for cost savings
Azure functions:
1 million executions free per month
$0.20 per million executions
Cheapest virtual machine is $20 per month
Pay per usage Services:
Functions
Logic Apps
Storage (pay per GB)
Outbound bandwidth
Cognitive Services API
Pay for time (per second):
Per second billing means billing stops when the VM is stopped
You are also paying for storage even tho the VM is stopped
Stability in pricing
Pay a fixed price per month for computing power or storage capacity
Whether you use it or not
Discounts for 1-year or 3-year commitment in VM (Reserved instances)
Multi-tenant or isolated environment
Pay for Bandwidth
First 5 GB is free
Inbound data is free (Data coming into Azure)
1 PB of data transferred = $52.000
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