Understand Azure Pricing and Support Flashcards
_____: a logical container used to provision resources in Microsoft Azure
Azure Subscription
_____: includes a $200 credit to spend on any service for the first 30 days, free access to the most popular Azure products for 12 months, and access to more than 25 products that are always free. This is an excellent way for new users to get started. To set up a _____, you need a phone number, a credit card, and a Microsoft account
Azure Free Subscription
_____: charges you monthly for the services you used in that billing period. This subscriptions type is appropriate for a wide range of users, from individuals to small businesses, and many large organizations as well
Azure Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG) Subscription
_____: provides flexibility to buy cloud services and software licenses under one agreement, with discounts for new licenses and Software Assurance. It is targeted at enterprise-scale organizations
Azure Enterprise Agreement
_____: includes $100 in Azure Credits to be used within the first 12 months plus select free services without requiring a credit card to sign-up. You must verify your student status through your organizational email address
Azure for Students Subscription
There are three main customer types on which the available purchasing options for Azure products and services are contingent: _____: customers sign an _____ Agreement with Azure that commits them to spend a negotiated amount on Azure services, which they pay annually. _____ customers also have access to customized Azure pricing
Enterprise
There are three main customer types on which the available purchasing options for Azure products and services are contingent: _____: customers pay general public prices for Azure resources, and their monthly billing and payments occur through the Azure website
Web Direct
There are three main customer types on which the available purchasing options for Azure products and services are contingent: _____: typically are Microsoft partner companies that a customer hires to build solutions on top of Azure. Payment and billing for Azure usage occur through the customer’s _____
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)
When you provision an Azure resource, Azure creates one or more _____ instances for that resource. The _____ track the resources’ usage, and generate a usage record that is used to calculate your bill. The _____ and pricing vary per products and often have different pricing tiers based on the size or capacity of the resource
Meter
The key takeaway is that resources are always charged based on _____
Usage
Just like your on-premises equipment costs, there are several elements that will affect your monthly costs when using Azure services: _____, _____, _____, and _____
Resource Type, Services, Location, and Azure Billing Zones
Bandwidth refers to data moving in and out of Azure datacenters. Most of the time inbound data transfers are free. For outbound data transfers, the data transfer pricing is based on _____. A _____ is a geographical grouping of Azure regions for billing purposes
Azure Billing Zone
_____: a free web-based tool that allows you to input Azure services and modify properties and options of the services. It outputs the costs per service and total cost for the full estimate
Azure Pricing Calculator
If you are starting to migrate to the cloud, a useful tool you can use to predict your cost savings is the _____. With the _____ you define your workloads (servers, databases, storage networking), adjust assumptions (Storage Costs, IT Labor Costs, Hardware Costs, Software Costs, Electricity Costs, Virtualization Costs, Datacenter Costs, Networking Costs, and Database Costs), and view the report
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
_____: is a free service built into Azure that provides recommendations on high availability, security, performance, and cost. It analyzes your deployed services and looks for ways to improve your environment across those four areas
Azure Advisor
Advisor makes cost recommendations in the following areas: _____: this identifies ExpressRoute circuits that have been in the provider status of Not Provisioned for more than one month and recommends deleting the circuit if you aren’t planning to provision it with your connectivity provider
Eliminating Unprovisioned Azure ExpressRoute Circuits
Advisor makes cost recommendations in the following areas: _____: this will review your VM usage over the last 30 days and determine if you could save money in the future by _____. Advisor will show you the regions and sizes where you potentially have the most savings and will show you the estimated savings you might achieve from _____
Buy Reserved Instances
Advisor makes cost recommendations in the following areas: _____: this monitors your VM usage for 14 days and then identifies underutilized VMs. VMs whose average CPU utilization is 5% or less and network usages is 7MB or less for four or more days are considered underutilized VMs. The average CPU utilization threshold is adjustable up to 20%. By identifying these VMs, you can decide to resize them to a smaller instance type, reducing costs
Right-Size or Shutdown Underutilized VMs
Best Practices for Minimizing Costs: _____: Visual Studio subscribers can activate a monthly credit benefit which allows you to experiment with, develop, and test new solutions on Azure. The _____ amount varies based on the program level. Note, this _____ is for development and testing only and does not carry a financially-backed SLA
Azure Credits
Best Practices for Minimizing Costs: _____: by default, Azure subscriptions which have associated monthly credits (which includes trial accounts) have a _____ to ensure you aren’t charged once you have used up your credits. This feature is useful for development teams exploring new solution architectures as it ensures you won’t have an unexpectedly large bill at the end of the month. The _____ feature is specific to subscriptions that include a monthly Azure credit allotment. It is not available on pay-only subscriptions
Spending Limits