Create an Azure account Flashcards
What are the Azure purchasing options?
Azure.com: Buying directly through Azure.com is the fastest and easiest way for organizations of all sizes to get started with Azure. You can manage your Azure deployments and usage yourself and get a monthly bill from Microsoft for the services used.
Microsoft representative: Buying Azure through a Microsoft representative is intended for large organizations or customers who already work with one. You’ll also manage your Azure deployments and usage yourself and get a monthly bill from Microsoft for the services used.
Microsoft partner: If you buy Azure as a managed service through your partner, your partner will provide you with access to Azure, manage your billing, and provide support.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/2-azure-accounts-and-subscriptions
What is the Azure free account?
Includes free access to popular Azure products for 12 months, $200 USD credit to spend for the first 30 days, and access to more than 25 products that are always free
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/2-azure-accounts-and-subscriptions
What is an Azure subscription?
When you sign up, an Azure subscription is created by default. An Azure subscription is a logical container used to provision resources in Azure. It holds the details of all your resources like virtual machines (VMs), databases, and more.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/4-multiple-subscriptions
You might choose to create additional subscriptions to separate:
Environments: When managing your resources, you can choose to create subscriptions to set up separate environments for development and testing, security, or to isolate data for compliance reasons. This is particularly useful because resource access control occurs at the subscription level.
Organizational structures: You can create subscriptions to reflect different organizational structures. For example, you could limit a team to lower-cost resources, while allowing the IT department a full range. This design allows you to manage and control access to the resources that users provision within each subscription.
Billing: You might want to also create additional subscriptions for billing purposes. Because costs are first aggregated at the subscription level, you might want to create subscriptions to manage and track costs based on your needs. For instance, you might want to create a subscription for your production workloads and another subscription for your development and testing workloads.
Subscription limits: Subscriptions are bound to some hard limitations. For example, the maximum number of Express Route circuits per subscription is 10. Those limits should be considered as you create subscriptions on your account. If there is a need to go over those limits in particular scenarios, then you might need additional subscriptions.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/4-multiple-subscriptions
Describe the Billing format?
If you have multiple subscriptions, you can organize them into invoice sections. Each invoice section is a line item on the invoice that shows the charges incurred that month. For example, you might need a single invoice for your organization but want to organize charges by department, team, or project.
Depending on your needs, you can set up multiple invoices within the same billing account. To do this, create additional billing profiles. Each billing profile has its own monthly invoice and payment method.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/4-multiple-subscriptions
What is an invoice section?
You can organize multiple subscriptions into an invoice section
For example, you might need a single invoice for your organization but want to organize charges by department, team, or project.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/4-multiple-subscriptions
What are free Azure support plans?
Billing and subscription management support
Azure Quickstart Center, a guided experience in the Azure portal available to anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of Azure
Azure Service Health gives you insights on issues related to your Azure services
Azure Advisor gives you personalized recommendations on how to optimize your cost and performance
List some exampled of Azure Community Support:
Azure Knowledge Center - The Azure Knowledge Center is a searchable database that contains answers to common support questions.
Microsoft Tech Community - Get support by reading responses to Azure technical questions from Microsoft’s developers and testers.
Microsoft Q&A - Find answers to your technical questions about selected Azure products.
Stack Overflow - You can review answers to questions from the development community.
Server Fault - Review community responses to questions about System and Network Administration in Azure.
Azure Feedback Forums - Read ideas and suggestions for improving Azure made by Azure users.
Twitter - Tweet @AzureSupport to get answers and support from the official Microsoft Azure Twitter channel.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/5-support-options
What are some Azure support plans:
Standard:
Best for: Production workloads
Reactive Technical Support: 1-hour response for critical cases
Proactive technical support: Not applicable
Developer:
Best for: Non-critical workloads
Reactive Technical Support: 1 business day response
Proactive technical support: Not applicable
Professional Direct:
Best for: Business-critical workloads
Reactive Technical Support: 1-hour response + priority tracking of critical cases
Proactive technical support: Access to a pool of technical experts
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/5-support-options
