Performance and Cost Management

Question 1

Azure Service Health

Answer 1

Current and upcoming issues e.g. maintenance, service impact events which effect availability.

Found within Azure Monitor

Question 2

Azure Advisor

Answer 2

Helps you follow best practices regarding
High Availability, Cost, Performance, Security, Operational Excellence.
Get recommendations.

Does not monitor on prem services, nor does it notify you when to do updates.

Question 3

Service Level Agreements

Answer 3

Azures commitment for uptime and connectivity.
Individualized per Azure service.
Performance targets (will be up x% of time). E.g. 99,999% up is referred to as five nines.
Not available for free.

Question 4

Service Credits

Answer 4

When customer gets discount on bills as service hasn’t met SLA

Question 5

Composite SLAs

Answer 5

Combining SLAs across different service offerings.
E.g. Web app uses SQL DB. Each has different up time.
Calculated by multiplying these together.
Can setup a queue to improve this so that if DB goes down, queue takes over, mitigating the downtime of the DB.

Question 6

Azure marketplace

Answer 6

Apps and services from 3rd parties to quickly get started.

Apps here can be Free, Trial, PAYG or BYOL.

Question 7

Azure Hybrid Benefit

Answer 7

Customers who have invested in Windows Server Licenses and would like to use this on Azure.
Can be turned on and off for VMs

Question 8

BYOL

Answer 8

Have already purchased license and want to bring it to Azure

Question 9

Azure pricing calculator

Answer 9

Configure and estiamte costs of Azure products.

Question 10

Azure Cost management

Answer 10

Perform cost analysis of your resources

Setup budget to understand how things are going.

Question 11

Azure Monitor

Answer 11

Azure Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of apps/services by collecting, analyzing and acting on telemetry from cloud and on prem environments.

Autoscales

Smart alerts