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Service Definition
Azure Cost management + Billing A Free service that helps you grasp your Azure bill, manage subscription, monitor, optimize and control spending.
Azure Reservations Offers discounted pricing on certain Azure services for reserving and paying in advance for services
Azure Pricing Calculator A calculator that estimates cost based on all preceding factors according to specific requirements
Azure Advisor Identifies unused/underutilized resources and makes recommendations.

TCO Calculator

Definition: helps you estimate the cost savings of operating your solution on Azure over time vs. on-premise datacenter

Azure subscriptions

There are 3 options:

  • Free trial
  • Pay-as-you-go: pay for what you use by attaching a CC to your account. Orgs can get discounts by prepaying.
  • Member offers: Memberships might provide you credits or reduced rates for Azure services.

Affecting cost

  1. Region
  2. Tier
  3. Billing Options
  4. Support options
  5. Programs and offers
  6. Azure Dev/Test pricing

Type:

  • Resource type
  • Performance Tier

Usage Meter

  • CPU
  • IP address time
  • Incoming+Outgoing network traffic
  • Disk size and read+write operations

Usage:

  • Deallocated still uses storage, but not compute

Subscription Type:

  • Free tier has access to free services for 12 months
  • Some types have usage allowances

Azure Marketplace

  • Third-party (vendor) services and solutions with billing set by the vendor

Location (a.k.a. Region)

  • Different regions have different associated prices

Zones for network traffic (Data moving in+out of Azure datacenters)

Zone: a geographical grouping of Azure regions

  • Some inbound data to Azure is free.
  • Outbound is based in zones

There are 4 zones:

  1. Zone 1 (Australia Central, West US, East US, Canada West, West Europe, France Central and others)
  2. Zone 2
  3. Zone 3
  4. DE Zone 1

Azure Pricing Calculator

Definition: A calculator that estimates cost based on all preceding factors according to specific requirements

Azure Advisor

Definition: Identifies unused/underutilized resources and makes recommendations.

Spending limits

Prevent accidental overrun by setting limits.

Azure Reservations

Definition: offers discounted pricing on certain Azure services for reserving and paying in advance for services

Azure Cost Management + Billing

Definition: A Free service that helps you grasp your Azure bill, manage subscription, monitor, optimize and control spending.