Pricing and Support Flashcards
Subscriptions
- Every resource on Azure lives in a subscription.
- You can have multiple subscriptions for different departments etc
- One of more users can be a billing admin, which manages billing and invoice information
- Billing cycle is either 30 or 60 day
Cost Management
Single place to track cost of many different areas
Different ___ cost different amounts of money
zones
Ingress data =
free
Egress data =
not free
Can estimate monthly costs using ____.
Pricing Calculator.
Total Cost of Ownership calculator
estimate total savings over a period of time by using Azure
Best practices - Spending limits
- When credits run out, limit kicks in
- When credits are gone, either remove the limit entirely or leave it
- Pay as you go have no spending limit functionality
Best practices - Quotas
- A limit on a certain property of an Azure service
- Necessary to ensure Azure can maintain their high service level
- You can increase the quota for a service by asking MS
Tags
• Non functional labels you can attached to resources
PAYG =
expensive
Advisor portal
Gives you best practices advice in general through recommendations
The 5 plans in azure
- Basic
- Developer
- Standard
- Professional direct
- Premier
All plans include:
• 24/7 access • Online self-help • Forums • Azure advisor • Service health Which is whats included with basic.
Tickets
Tickets are support enquiries
Knowledge Centre
At the beginning, many questions are common. The knowledge centre aims to answer these.
Service life cycle
Customers can provide valuable feedback on features on functionality before everything is set in stone
3 main stages in the azure service lifecycle
• Preview
o Private – only available to specific customers invited by the product team
o Public – available to all azure customers
• General availability – all azure customers as normal service
