Cost Management Flashcards
When you provision an Azure resource, Azure creates one or more meter instances for that resource. The meters track the resources’ usage, and generate a usage record that is used to calculate your bill.
Usage Meters
When you provision an Azure resource, Azure creates one or more meter instances for that resource. The meters track the resources’ usage, and generate a usage record that is used to calculate your bill.
Usage Meters
Costs are resource-specific, so the usage that a meter tracks and the number of meters associated with a resource depend on the resource type.
Cost Factor-Resource Type
Azure usage rates and billing periods can differ between Enterprise, Web Direct, and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers.
Cost Factor-Services
Azure has datacenters all over the world. Usage costs vary between locations that offer particular Azure products, services, and resources based on popularity, demand, and local infrastructure costs.
Cost Factor-Location
Bandwidth refers to data moving in and out of Azure datacenters. Most of the time inbound data transfers (data going into Azure datacenters) are free. For outbound data transfers (data going out of Azure datacenters), the data transfer pricing is based on Billing Zones.
A Zone is a geographical grouping of Azure Regions for billing purposes.
In most zones, the first outbound 5 GB per month is free. After that, you are billed a fixed price per GB.
Cost Factor-Azure Billing Zone
Azure Billing Zones
Zone 1 = United States, Europe, Canada, UK, France
Zone 2 = Asia Pacific, Japan, Australia, India, Korea
Zone 3 = Brazil
DE Zone 1 = Germany
Azure Pricing Calculator Options
Region = Lists the regions from which you can provision a product. Southeast Asia, central Canada, the western United States, and Northern Europe are among the possible regions available for some resources.
Tier = Sets the type of tier you wish to allocate to a selected resource, such as Free Tier, Basic Tier, etc.
Billing Options = Highlights the billing options available to different types of customer and subscriptions for a chosen product.
Support Options = Allows you to pick from included or paid support pricing options for a selected product.
Programs and Offers= Allows you to choose from available price offerings according to your customer or subscription type.
Azure Dev/Test Pricing = Lists the available development and test prices for a product. Dev/Test pricing applies only when you run resources within an Azure subscription that is based on a Dev/Test offer.
r is a free service built into Azure that provides recommendations on high availability, security, performance, and cost
Azure Advisor
is another free, built-in Azure tool that can be used to gain greater insights into where your cloud money is going. You can see historical breakdowns of what services you are spending your money on and how it is tracking against budgets that you have set. You can set budgets, schedule reports, and analyze your cost areas.
Azure Cost Management
If you are starting to migrate to the cloud, a useful tool you can use to predict your cost savings is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator.
Azure TCO Calculator
