Cost Management Flashcards
1
Q
How certain can you be over the monthly bill of Azure services?
A
- you can choose to have relative certainty over the monthly bill
- subscribe to services with a fixed monthly rate
- or be more flexible with by-usage-payment
2
Q
Which factors can influence Cost?
A
- Time
- Consumption (Storage, Bandwith, Compute)
- Service Tier (basic vs. standard vs. premium)
- Computing power (vCPUs, RAM, CPU type)
- Software Licenses
3
Q
What are additional factors that can influence cost?
A
- Bandwidth (Egress from Azure)
- Bandwidth (Between Azure Regions)
- IP addresses
- Reservations
- Per Transaction
4
Q
What is the Azure Price calculator used for?
A
- considering different Azure resources how expensive is it going to become
- possibility to specify multiple Specifics (Instance, Tier, Location, OS, …)
- allows to specify the amount of used time
- long term bookings allows savings
5
Q
What is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
A
- should enable comparison of running solutions in Azure and of all the costs of running it on premise
6
Q
What does the Azure Cost Management include?
A
- how much you are spending on Azure
- free tool inside Azure Portal to analyze spending based on past invoices
7
Q
What does Azure Cost Management allow?
A
- analyze spending in the past
- analyze spending over time
- tracking against budgets
- see past invoices
- schedule reports
- tagging resources propertly helps analyzation
