Understanding Azure Pricing & Support Flashcards
What are the factors affecting a usage meter?
- ) Resource Type- costs are resource specific and an identified resource can have multiple usage meters.
- ) Services- are the resources you purchase 1st party or 3rd party
- ) Locations- some locations are cheaper than others for certain resources
- ) Azure Billing Zones- going in data vs. going-out data
- “egress traffic/outbound traffic”
Zone 1- US, US Govt, Europe, Canada, UK, France, Switzerland
Zone 2- East Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, India, Korea
Zone 3- Brazil, South Africa, UAE
DE Zone 1- germany
What is the Azure Pricing Calculator?
Azure pricing calculator is a calculation tool that helps you build a virtual network by adding resources like VMs, Servers, Databases, etc.
- This allows for costs per service and total cost for the full estimate.
What is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator?
The Total Cost of Ownership calculator shows 2 pie graphs for in-service datacenter costs vs. cloud-based solution costs.
**used to show cost savings
What are spending limits and meeting quotas?
Spending limits on your resources so that your resources will be cut off once a certain amount of money is spent.
What are Azure reservations? (make a 1 yr reservation)**
Azure reservations->
- an app that is used to select VMs that are based on a “pay-as-you go model” and then take them down to an idle level of CPU storage.
- You pay for a 1 year contract that is cheaper because you know the amount of data storage usages, and compute power will be idle for the next whole fiscal year.
- you save money this way!!!!
How can Azure Advisor save you money?***
Azure Advisor can tell you when you need to ‘right-size/ shut down’ a VM.
- This is done through recommendations!!!!
What is Azure Cost Management? (time-lapsed graph- remember????****)
**VISUAL GRAPH- TIME-LAPSED
Azure cost management is another free, built in Azure tool.
-Cost management gives a yearly based graph that depicts where all your money is going for VMs, compute services, networking, etc.
What is a developer support plan offered by Microsoft?
The developer support plan is good for clients that work on:
- non-critical workloads
- need 1 business day reactive technical support
- no proactive technical support
What is the standard support plan offered by Microsoft?
The standard support plan is:
- good for production workloads
- gives 1 hr response to critical cases
- no proactive support plan
What is the professional direct plan?
It is a support plan that:
- business- critical workloads
- gives reactive support (1 hr response)
- proactive technical support with access to pool of technical experts
What is the Azure Knowledge Center?
Azure knowledge Center is a searchable database that contains answers to common support questions for support. These FAQs are written by community experts and Microsoft Engineers.
What is an SLA?
Service level agreements are formal documents that capture specific terms that define performance standards that apply to Azure.
- ) Performance Targets
- ) Uptime & Connectivity Guarantees
- ) Service Credits
What is the difference between public preview and private preview features?
Public preview features are apps that are not backed by SLAs but are for the public to experiment and see if they like the new deployed resource.
Private preview features are for specific Azure customers for evaluation purposes.
What is General Availability? **
GA or general availability is a feature that has been evaluated and tested successfully. These resources are released as part of a customers default product set.
