Microsoft Azure: Controlling Cost

Discover how to minimize the costs associated with moving to a Microsoft Azure environment.

Learn how to minimize the costs associated with a move to a Microsoft Azure environment. Software architect and trainer Scott Duffy reviews typical Azure subscription costs and explores cost management options for Azure services including storage, compute, and networking. Learn about the factors driving costs and ways to analyze your spending using the built-in tools in Azure. Then explore practical strategies for reducing costs, such as improving system efficiency and introducing a storage life cycle. Plus, discover long-term proactive solutions for monitoring spending, such as alerts and diagnostics.

Introduction

• Thinking about costs in Azure
• What you should know

1. How Azure Is Priced

• Busting cloud computing myths
• Understanding consumption-based pricing
• Factors that drive compute costs
• Factors that drive storage costs
• Factors that drive network costs
• Other significant costs in Azure

2. Determining Your Costs

• Finding your invoices
• Analyzing your spending
• Understanding the EA portal
• Exporting costs from Azure

3. Reducing Costs

• Baseline the costs of a system
• Improve efficiency of the system
• Optimizing for scaling up and down
• Using reservations and Hybrid Benefit
• Implementing a storage lifecycle
• Cloud-native applications
• Implementing autoscaling
• Top five cost-saving ideas

4. Monitoring Spending

• Setting up a budget and alerts
• Enabling diagnostics
• Designing Azure Monitor reports

Conclusion

• Next steps