Cost optimization documentation

Apply the cost principles in your architecture to accelerate your time to market while avoiding capital-intensive solutions. Consider opportunity costs. Use the cost calculators to estimate the initial and operational costs. Finally, establish policies, budgets, and controls that set cost limits for your solution.

Key points

Quickstart

• Principles
• Design checklist
• Provision checklist
• Monitor checklist
• Optimize checklist
• Tradeoffs

Training

• Cost optimization

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• What trade-offs have you made to optimize for cost?

Design within the cost limits

Get Started

• Organization structure
• Capture clear requirements
• Consider the cost constraints
• Consider tradeoffs

Concept

• Develop a cost model
• Understand the usage meters
• Cost impact across regions
• Consumption or fixed?
• Use PaaS
• Estimate an initial cost

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• How is your organization modeling cloud costs?

Provision the right resources

Overview

• AI + Machine Learning
• Big Data
• Data store
• Networking

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• How do you ensure that cloud resources are appropriately provisioned?
• How do you manage the storage footprint of your digital assets?

Monitor your cloud spend

Concept

• Review alerts
• Generate cost reports
• Conduct cost reviews

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• How are you monitoring your costs?

Optimize based on audits

Concept

• Autoscale instances
• Right-size VMs
• Cache data

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• What actions are you taking to optimize cloud costs?

Cost tools and services

Concept

• Azure Pricing Calculator
• Azure Migrate
• Microsoft Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
• Azure Advisor
• Advisor Score
• Azure Cost Management
• Visualize cost reports

Consumption APIs

Reference

• Billing account API
• Billing Periods API
• Usage Detail API
• Marketplace Store Charge API
• Price Sheet API