Understanding Azure Savings Plan for Compute

Explore the Azure Savings Plan for Compute in this 22-minute video tutorial. Learn about this flexible cost-saving option for various compute services across all regions with 1- or 3-year commitments. Compare it to existing Azure Reservations and discover how services like Azure Advisor provide guidance on optimizing spending. Dive into topics such as reservation review, VM and VMSS considerations, infrastructure and license cost elements, commit billing, scopes, and the potential future of AR compute trade-ins. Gain insights into the included compute services, plan creation process, flexibility, and discount structures. Understand how to leverage this savings plan alongside reservations for maximum cost efficiency in your Azure environment.

- Introduction
- Azure Reservation review
- VM, VMSS and more
- Infrastructure and license cost elements
- How commit billing works
- Scopes
- AR compute trade-in future?
- Azure Savings Plan for Compute introduction
- Included compute services
- Commit, billing application and scopes
- Savings plan creation
- VM, VMSS, AKS, AVD and more
- Flexibility
- Reservations with savings plan
- What are the discounts
- Close and summary