Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements- 10-15% Flashcards
Objective area 6
Includes the following concepts: ▪ Methods for managing costs • Factors affecting costs • Options to reduce and control costs • Azure Cost Management ▪ Service Level Agreements and Lifecycles • Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA) • Factors impacting SLAs • Azure product and feature lifecycle
Planning and Cost Management - Objective Domain
- Identify factors that can affect costs (resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic)
- Identify factors that can reduce costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, and spot pricing)
- Describe the functionality and usage of the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management
Pricing Calculator?
Pricing Calculator The Pricing Calculator is a tool that helps you estimate the cost of Azure products. The options that you can configure in the Pricing Calculator vary between products, but basic configuration options include: • Region • Tier • Billing options • Support options • Programs and offers • Azure dev/test pricing
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
• A tool to estimate cost savings you can realize by migrating to Azure.
• A report compares the costs of on-premises infrastructures with the costs of using Azure products and services in the cloud.
Azure Cost Management?
Azure Cost Management • Reporting – billing reports • Data enrichment • Budgets – set spend budget • Alerting – when cost exceed limits • Recommendation – cost recommendations
Minimizing costs Plan?
Minimizing costs
Perform-
Perform cost analyses. Use the Azure Pricing and TCO calculators.
Monitor
Monitor usage with Azure Advisor. Implement recommendations.
Use - Use spending limits. Use via free trial customers and some credit-based Azure subscriptions.
Use- Use Azure Reservations and Azure Hybrid Benefit (HUB).
Choose-Choose low-cost locations and regions. If possible, use low-cost locations.
Keep -Keep up-to-date with the latest Azure customer and subscription offers.
Apply- Apply tags to identify cost owners. Identify usage owners with tags.
Azure SLAs and service lifecycles - Objective Domain?
Azure SLAs and service lifecycles - Objective Domain
• Describe the purpose of an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Identify actions that can impact an SLA (i.e. Availability Zones)
• Describe the service lifecycle in Azure (Public Preview and General Availability)
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)?*
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) describes Microsoft’s commitments for uptime and connectivity.
SLAs for Azure products and services?
SLAs for Azure products and services • Performance targets are expressed as uptime and connectivity guarantees. • Performance-targets range from 99% to 99.999%. • If a service fails to meet the guarantees, a percentage of the monthly service fees can be credited. SLA Downtime per month 99% 7h 18m 17s 99.5% 3h 39m 8s 99.9% 43m 49s 99.95% 21m 54s 99.99% 4m 22s
Actions that affect SLAs?
Actions that affect SLAs Lower your SLA • Adding more services • Choosing free or non-SLA services Raise your SLA • Availability Zones • Redundant systems Many factors can raise or lower your SLA. Design decisions based on business goals will drive your SLA goals.
Azure Preview Program?
Azure Preview Program
With Azure previews, users can test beta and other pre-release features, products, services, software, and regions to provide feedback.
• Public Preview: all Azure customers can evaluate the new features
• Generally available (GA): after public preview is completed, all customers can use the feature, and region availability will vary.
Monitoring service and feature updates?
Monitoring service and feature updates
• Azure updates provides information about the Azure products, services, and features, in addition to product roadmaps and availability.
• View details about all Azure updates and their status.
• Browse and search for updates.
• Subscribe to Azure update notifications by RSS.
Knowledge Check
True or False
An Azure subscription may only have one account owner.
Answer
True
Each Azure subscription can have one account owner. However, each account owner may own multiple subscriptions.
Knowledge Check
Your organization relies on Azure services for hosting a critical application. You need 24x7 support for your Azure services. Which of the following support plans is the most economical option that still provides you with 24x7 support?
a) Developer b) Standard
c) Professional d) Premier
b) Standard
The standard tier support plan is the most economical offering that would still be appropriate for critical 24x7 operations. The Developer tier would be cheaper but does not provide 24x7 support, the Professional and Premier offerings provide 24x7 support but are significantly more expensive.
Knowledge Check
Your organization relies on Azure services for hosting a critical application. You need 24x7 support for your Azure services. Which of the following support plans is the most economical option that still provides you with 24x7 support?
a) Developer b) Standard
c) Professional d) Premier
b) Standard
The standard tier support plan is the most economical offering that would still be appropriate for critical 24x7 operations. The Developer tier would be cheaper but does not provide 24x7 support, the Professional and Premier offerings provide 24x7 support but are significantly more expensive.
