Azure Pricing Flashcards
What are the rules for subscriptions in Azure?
Every resource must have a subscription
A subscription can have multiple resources
What can a billing admin do?
User can manage everything to do with billing
What is an offer type?
Student account, free trial, etc.
What is a group subscription?
Manage subscriptions in bulk
How can you use Billing logic?
Associate billing to the right budgets within a hierarchy or relationship
How are subscriptions used with billing?
Billing is always done at the subscription scope
What is Acure Cost Management?
Dashboard to visualize spending
What is a spot VM and why does it matter in Azure?
Un-used compute capacity on Azure
You can lose the VM at any time - must be non-critical processing
What influences resource pricing?
Resource size
Resource type - complexity, big data vs. normal vm
Location - US Central is always more expensive
Bandwidth - how much data coming in and out of Azure
How does the Pricing Calculator work?
Calculate your services and resources into a monthly cost
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?
Total cost of savings by using Azure of a period of time
What are Spending Limits?
Limits to how much you can spend on an Azure subscription. Not all subscriptions
What is a Quota?
Some resources have restrictions on how much you can use - limit to number of namespaces per subscription
