Microsoft Azure: Controlling Cost

1h 23mIntermediate2020-03-18

Authors

Scott Duffy

Top online instructor, Microsoft Azure expert

Course details

Learn how to minimize the costs associated with a move to a Microsoft Azure environment. Software architect and trainer Scott Duffy reviews typical Azure subscription costs and explores cost management options for Azure services including storage, compute, and networking. Learn about the factors driving costs and ways to analyze your spending using the built-in tools in Azure. Then explore practical strategies for reducing costs, such as improving system efficiency and introducing a storage life cycle. Plus, discover long-term proactive solutions for monitoring spending, such as alerts and diagnostics.

Topics include:
- Azure pricing
- Consumption-based pricing
- Factors that drive compute, storage, and network costs
- Determining the cost of Azure
- Using the Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) portal
- Using reservations and Hybrid Benefit
- Top ten ways to save on cloud costs
- Monitoring cloud spending

Skills covered

AzureNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Thinking about costs in Azure
02 - What you should know

1. How Azure Is Priced

03 - Busting cloud computing myths
04 - Understanding consumption-based pricing
05 - Factors that drive compute costs
06 - Factors that drive storage costs
07 - Factors that drive network costs
08 - Other significant costs in Azure

2. Determining Your Costs

09 - Finding your invoices
10 - Analyzing your spending
11 - Understanding the EA portal
12 - Exporting costs from Azure

3. Reducing Costs

13 - Baseline the costs of a system
14 - Improve efficiency of the system
15 - Optimizing for scaling up and down
16 - Using reservations and Hybrid Benefit
17 - Implementing a storage lifecycle
18 - Cloud-native applications
19 - Implementing autoscaling
20 - Top five cost-saving ideas

4. Monitoring Spending

21 - Setting up a budget and alerts
22 - Enabling diagnostics
23 - Designing Azure Monitor reports

Conclusion

24 - Next steps