Azure Cloud Cost Management Course

Course Summary

The Azure Cloud Cost Management course is designed to demonstrate how to monitor and control costs as well as how to maintain cost effectiveness.

The course begins with a review of Azure billing and pricing to understand how services are priced. Next, it covers in-depth governance features such as management groups, policies, tagging, and Azure Blueprints, which can be used to better analyze and control costs. The course concludes by explaining practical examples of ways to optimize specific resource types are presented and ideas for automation and frameworks to ensure adherence to best practices are discussed.

Purpose

Learn how to analyze Azure costs and employ governance best practices to manage and optimize costs in an Azure account. Compare/contrast value and demand and evaluate decisions.

Audience

Software Developers, Cloud Architects, Technical Managers, Product Managers, Engineers and others responsible for managing costs in Azure.

Role

Data Engineer - Data Scientist - DevOps Engineer - Software Developer - Technical Manager - Web Developer

Skill Level

Intermediate

Style

Workshops

Duration

2 Days

Related Technologies

Cloud Computing Training

Azure

Server Administration

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Productivity Objectives:

Explain how Azure pricing works
Analyze and manage costs
Leverage Azure cost management tools
Use governance features such as management groups, policies, tagging, and Azure Blueprints
Implement best practices to manage costs

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
Expert Practitioners

Industry experts with 15+ years of industry experience that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
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More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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What You'll Learn

In the Azure Cloud Cost Management training course, you'll learn:

Pricing Calculator and cost factors
Flat rate versus variable cost resources and how to alert on outlier costs
- Network and storage
- VM, fixed, RIs
- Cost analysis to understand which technologies are driving spend and tracking those products & services:
  - Cosmos DB
  - SQL
  - Kubernetes
  - VMs
  - Gateways
Subscription and Management Group architecture
Budgeting
- Reports and cost management
Azure Cost Management
- Reports: Built-in reports, ad-hoc analysis, and API usage
- Alerts
- Budgets and Forecasts
- Recommendations (Azure Advisor)
- Data Enrichment
Azure Governance
- Azure Management Groups
- Policy to control resource costs and types
- Tag Internal document to be shared
Best practices
- Turn off unused resources (manual or programmatic)
- Reserved Instances and Reserved Capacity: both shared and single use for VMs and SQL
- Save costs with SpotVMs
- Seek opportunities to consolidate databases; deprecate those that are redundant
- Orphaned resources
- Utilization, right-size the selection of components
  - Size Databases, K8s
  - Size Databricks Clusters
  - Size Virtual Machines
  - Serverless options (scale and pause)
- Blob storage lifecycle management
- Cosmos TTL
- Hybrid-use licenses (for Windows only), Software Assurance
- Azure Data Explorer table cache-period
- Manage storage and network transfer costs
- Abandoned IPs
- Example tag schemes