Azure Management and Governance Flashcards
What factors can affect cost in Azure
- By resource type
- Consumption
- Maintenance
- Geography
- Suscription Type
- Azure Marketplace
Resource Type
The type of resources, its configuration and region, impact how much a resource cost.
Consumption
Pay as you go.
Reserved resources.
Reserve Capacity
Maintenance
Adjust resources based on demand.
Geography
Azure infraestructure is distribuited globally, enable you to deploy your services centrally or closest to your consumers.
The cost os power,labor, taxes and fees vary depending on the location, besided network traffic is also impacted based on geography
Network Traffic
Billing zones are a factor to determining the cost of some Azure services.
Bandwidth refers to data movin in and out of Azure Datacenters.
Some inbound data transfers (data going into Azure datacenters) are free.
For outbound data transfers (data leaving Azure datacenters), data transfer pricing is based on zones.
A zone is a geographical grouping of Azure regions for billing purposes.
Suscription Type
Some Azure subscription types also include usage allowances(asignaciones), which affect costs.
Azure Marketplace
Azure Marketplace lets you purchase Azure-based solutions and services from third-party vendors.
Billing structures are set by the vendor.
What is Pricing Calculator?
The pricing calculator is designed to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure
What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
The TCO is designed to help you compare the costs for running an on-premise infraestructure vs Azure cloud infraestructure.
You enter your configuration, add in assumptions like power and IT labor costs, and are presented with an estimation of the cost difference to run the same environment in your current datacenter or in Azure.
What is Cost Management?
Cost Management provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate management of resources.
What is Cost analysis?
Using cost analysis, you can quickly view the total cost in a variety of different ways, including by billing cycle, region, resource, and so on.
What is Cost Alerts?
The three types of alerts that may show up are:
- Budget alerts
- Credit alerts
- Department spending quota alerts.
In the Azure portal, budgets are defined by cost. Budgets are defined by cost or by consumption usage when using the Azure Consumption API.
What is Credit Alerts?
Credit alerts notify you when your Azure credit monetary commitments are consumed. Monetary commitments are for organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EAs). Credit alerts are generated automatically at 90% and at 100% of your Azure credit balance. Whenever an alert is generated, it’s reflected in cost alerts, and in the email sent to the account owners.
Describe the purpose of tags
One way to organize related resources is to place them in their own subscriptions. You can also use resource groups to manage related resources. Resource tags are another way to organize resources. Tags provide extra information, or metadata, about your resources.
How do I manage resource tags?
You can add, modify, or delete resource tags through Windows PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Azure Resource Manager templates, the REST API, or the Azure portal.
You can use Azure Policy to enforce tagging rules and conventions.
Budgets
A budget is where you set a spending limit for Azure. You can set budgets based on a subscription, resource group, service type, or other criteria. When you set a budget, you will also set a budget alert. When the budget hits the budget alert level, it will trigger a budget alert that shows up in the cost alerts area. If configured, budget alerts will also send an email notification that a budget alert threshold has been triggered.
Department spending quota alerts
Department spending quota alerts notify you when department spending reaches a fixed threshold of the quota. Spending quotas are configured in the EA portal
