Pruchasing Azure products and services
Three customers types
- Enterprise: Customized pricing
- Web direct: Web prices public
- Cloud solution provider: Micorosft partner. El cliente contrata a un CSP para usar Azure a través de ellos.
Usage meters
Las métrica se usan para calcular la facturación.
Factor affecting cost
- Resource type: Cada recurso tiene sus propias métricas
- Service: Depende del tipo de cliente, puede que la facturación sea una u otra.
- Location: Según la ubicación del recurso el coste puede variar.
Azure Billing zones
Algunas transferencias de entrada de datos son gratuitos, pero las salientes tienen un coste. Por este motivo se divide en Zonas.
Zone is a geographical grouping Azure Regions. Not confuse with Available Zone that is for failure protection.
Calculators
💸The Pricing Calculator Tool:
Tool that helps you estimate the cost of Azure products
💸Total Cost of Ownersihp TCO Calculator
Tool that you use to estimate cost saving you can realize by migrating to Azure
- Step1: Define workloads
- Step2: Adjust assumptions
- Step3: View the report
Minimizing Cost
- Perform cost analyses: use tools calculator
- Monitor usage with Azure Advisor: identifies unused or under-utilized resources. Implement recommendations
- Use spending limits: Some suscriptions. Azure suspende your suscription until new billing period begin.
- Use Azure reservation: Pre-pay for one year/three years of use. Offer discount.
- Choose low-cost locations and regions
- Research available cost-saving offers
- Apply tags to identify cost owners
Azure Cost Management
Is an Azure Product, that provides a set of tool for monitoring, allocating, and optimizing your Azure cost. Reporting, Data enrichment, Budgets, Alerting, Recommendations, Price.
