AZ-900 Episode 36 - Cheat Sheet

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• Skills Learned
  • Identify factors that can reduce costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing)
  • Describe the functionality and usage of the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
• Study Guide
  • Microsoft Learn: Compare costs by using the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
  • Microsoft Learn: Manage and minimize total cost on Azure
  • Microsoft Azure: TCO Calculator

Azure Reservations

Purchase Azure services for 1 or 3 years in advance with a significant discounts

• Reserved instances – Azure Virtual Machines
• Reserved capacity – Azure Storage, SQL Database vCores, Databricks DBUs, Cosmos DB RUs
• Software plans – Red Hat, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Linux, etc.
• Reservations are made for 1 or 3 years

Azure Spot VMs

Purchase unused Virtual Machine capacity for significant discount

• How it works
  • Significant dicount for Azure VMs
  • Capacity can be taken away at any time
  • Customer can set maximum price after discount to keep or evict the machine
• Best for interruptable workloads (batch processing, dev/test environments, large compute workloads, non-critical tasks, etc.)

Hybrid use Benefit

Use existing licenses in the cloud

• Use existing licenses in the Azure
  • Windows Server
    • Azure VM
  • RedHat
    • Azure VM
  • SUSE Linux
    • Azure VM
  • SQL Server
    • Azure SQL Database
    • Azure SQL Managed Instance
    • Azure SQL Server on VM
    • Azure Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services

Tools

• Pricing calculator – estimate the cost of Azure services
  • Select service
  • Adjust parameters (usage)
  • View the price
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator – estimate and compare the cost of running workloads in datacenter versus Azure
  • Define your workloads
  • Adjust assumptions
  • View the report