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Azure Pricing and Support Options Flashcards

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What is an Azure Subscription

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a logical container and grouping of Azure resources and administration

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What is an Azure Account

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An account is used for contact information and billing details

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Azure Subscription Elements

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IT is a Legal Agreement

It is a a billing Unit

It is a Logical Boundary of scale

It is a First container created and administrative boundary

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Azure Subscriptions and Azure Active Directory (AAD)

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A subscription has a trust relationship with at least one AAD

An AAD directory can have trusts with multiple subscriptions, but each subscription can only trust a single AAD directory.

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When to add a new subscription?

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Concern of exceeding subscription limits? YES -> new subscription

Are the subscription owners trusted? NO -> new subscription

Resource provider scope restrains? YES -> new subscription

Can administrative delegation be managed though RBAC? NO -> new subscription

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Azure Management Groups

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Apply governance conditions (Access & policies) a level of scope above subscriptions

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Azure Management Container (Not Docker!) Hierarchy

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Management Group -> Subscription -> Resource Group -> Resources

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Purchasing Azure Products and Services - Enterprise Agreement

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Designed for very large organizations

Premiere support and dedicated Azure resources

Annual Azure spend commit

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Purchasing Azure Products and Services - Direct

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Bill from Microsoft

Support via Microsoft Support Plan

Self manage or use partner for Azure provisioning, deployment and usage management

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Purchasing Azure Products and Services - Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

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Bill from CSP

Support through CSP

Work with CSP for Azure provisioning, deployment, and usage management

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Azure Free Account

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30 day $200 Credit

25+ Free services forever

Many popular services free for first 12 months

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Factors affecting Azure Cost : Location

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Costs vary between regions for the same Azure resources.

Depending on level of popularity, demand, local costs to Microsoft for infra, connectivity, cooling, staff etc.

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Factors affecting Azure Costs: Resource Type

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Costs are specific to each resource.

The usage that meter tracks and the number of meters depends on resource type

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Factors affecting Azure Cost: Service Type

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Azure usage rates and billing periods can be different across Enterprise Agreements, Direct & CSP which affect overall costs.

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Factors affecting Azure Costs: Egress traffic

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Sending data into Azure ingress (inbound) is always free.

Pulling data out of Azure egress (outbound) always has a cost.

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Azure Zones for Billing

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An Azure Zone is a geographical grouping of Azure Regions for billing purposes

Data transfer pricing is based on the Zones

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Reserved Instances

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Pre-pay for resources if you know exactly what you are going to consume in advance.

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Azure Cost Management

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Use the Azure Cost Management Tools.

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Quotas

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Place Quotas around the resources and the amount of resources that are being used.

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Spending Limits

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Put spending limits in place. If you approach a spending limit you can not provision and use any more resources.

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Azure Hybrid Benefit

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If you have software assurance and you’re brining servers from on-premises up to Azure.

You get deep discounts on the licensing for running in Azure.

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Best Practices for Minimizing Azure Costs: Tags

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When you deploy resource you will want to tag them.

Can be used as a tool for showback or chargeback.

Just useful to know what resources are and what they are for.

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Azure Pricing Calculator

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Estimate the costs of Azure products.

Web based, you add the services, their tiers and estimated consumption

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Total Cost of Ownership Calculator (TCO)

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Should be used when planning to migrate to Azure.

Help estimate the cost saving realized by migrating workloads to Azure vs running on-premises.

25
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Azure Support Plans - Basic

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Free and available to all Azure accounts.

24x7 access to billing and subscription support

Online self-help

Azure products and services docs/whitepapers

Support forums

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Azure Support Plans - Developer

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Scope : Non-Production
Tech Support : Business Hours (emails)
Response Times : (< 8 business Hours)

27
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Azure Support Plans : Standard

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Scope : Production
Tech Support : 24x7 (email + phone)
Response Times : (< 1 Hours)

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Azure Support Plans : Professional Direct

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Scope : Business Critical
Tech Support : 24x7 (email + phone)
Response Times : (< 1 Hours)

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Azure Support Plan Comparison : Premier

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Scope : Substantial Dependence
Tech Support : 24x7 (email + phone)
Response Times : (< 1 Hours)

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Azure Knowledge Center

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Q&A covering common questions about Azure Products

Search, browse or filter by product

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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

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An SLA is a commitment between a service provider and its internal or external customers.

Outlines what the service provider will provide to its customers and the standards the provider will meet

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Azure SLA

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Details the commitments for uptime and connectivity Microsoft has for its services.

Different services will have different SLAs

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Composite SLA

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Will involve more than one Azure service supporting an application.

Each service will have different levels of availability and connectivity.

E.g. Azure App Service (99.95%) for frontend and Azure SQL Database (99.99%) on backend.
Composite SLA = (99.95% * 99.99% = 99.94%)

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Azure Spot Instances

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Azure spot instances (VMs) are allocated form Azure’s excess compute capacity and enable workloads to run for significantly reduced costs.

No SLA for Spot VMs
Termination can occur with only a 30-second warning
Terminations are based on capacity availability and your configured price maximum

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Azure Previews

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These previews are for evaluation while features, products, services, software and regions are in beta or pre-release

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Public Preview

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Any customer with an Azure subscription can access features in public preview.

Resource/tool is still in beta.

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Private Preview

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Specific Azure customers only, are able to access features in Private Preview

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