AZ-900 Episode 37 - Cheat Sheet

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• Skills Learned
  • Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management
• Study Guide
  • Microsoft Learn: Analyze costs and create budgets with Azure Cost Management
  • Microsoft Azure: Azure Cost Management
• Expand your knowledge - extra resources
  • Microsoft Documentation: Azure Cost Management
  • Azure Cost Management Tutorial

Azure Cost Management

• A centralized service for reporting usage and billing of Azure environment
• Self-service cost exploration capabilities
• Budgets & alerts
• Cost recommendations
• Automated exports

Minimizing Costs in Azure

1. Azure Pricing Calculator to choose the low-cost region
   • Good latency
   • All required services are available
   • Data sovereignty/compliance requirements
2. Hybrid use benefit and Azure Reservations
3. Azure Cost Management monitoring, budgets, alerts and recommendations
4. Understand service lifecycle and automate environments
5. Use autoscaling features to your advantage
6. Azure Monitor to find and scale down underutilized resources
7. Use tags & policies for effective governance