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Control Azure spending and manage bills with Microsoft Cost Management + Billing

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Overview

  • Module 1: Learn how to use the cost optimization pillar of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework to design a cloud-based architecture that is efficient, eliminates waste, and gives you full visibility into where your money is spent on cloud resources.

    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Use monitoring and analytics to gain cost insights
    • Maximize the efficiency of your cloud environment
    • Provision resources that are optimized for cost
  • Module 2: Migration to the cloud presents new ways to think about your IT expenses. This module teaches you about the factors that influence cost and tools you can use to help estimate and manage your cloud spend. Prepare for AZ-900.

    • After completing this module, you'll be able to:

    • Use the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator to compare your current datacenter costs to running the same workloads on Azure.
    • Describe the different ways you can purchase Azure products and services.
    • Use the Pricing calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running your cloud workloads.
    • Define some of the major factors that affect total cost and apply recommended practices to minimize cost.
  • Module 3: Learn how to use cost analysis to understand how your costs accrue each month.

    • In this module, you will:

    • Set up your organization for success when using Cost Management
    • Analyze costs on a subscription using cost analysis
    • Create your first Azure budget based on your analysis
  • Module 4: Learn how to use plan for, buy, and manage Azure reservations to save money.

    • In this module, you'll learn how to:

    • Determine the usefulness of reserved instances.
    • Choose the right reserved instance, buy one, and then manage it.
    • Monitor and improve your reservations.
    • Perform basic reservation reporting.
  • Module 5: Use Power BI to understand where your money is being spent in Azure so you can help your organization to optimize its costs.

    • In this module, you'll learn how to:

    • Analyze your costs using Cost Management reporting in the Power BI app
    • Increase your organization’s use of hybrid benefits
    • Increase your savings by optimizing your organization's Reserved Instance coverage
    • Enable custom reporting creation within your team through the Cost Management data connector for Power BI Desktop to better understand your spending
  • Module 6: Learn how to reconcile your bill and analyze costs across your customers and resources by using Azure Cost Management as a partner.

    • In this module, you'll learn how to:

    • Understand Azure Cost Management scopes
    • Reconcile your bill
    • Determine which resources receive partner earned credit
    • Enable Azure Cost Management for customers
    • Set cost thresholds

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost optimization
    • Introduction
    • Plan and estimate your Azure costs
    • Provision with optimization
    • Use monitoring and analytics to gain cost insights
    • Maximize efficiency of cloud spend
    • Summary
  • Module 2: Plan and manage your Azure costs
    • Introduction
    • Compare costs by using the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
    • Exercise - Compare sample workload costs by using the TCO Calculator
    • Purchase Azure services
    • Exercise - Estimate workload cost by using the Pricing calculator
    • Manage and minimize total cost on Azure
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 3: Introduction to analyzing costs and creating budgets with Azure Cost Management
    • Introduction
    • Cost management principles
    • Evaluate your costs using cost analysis
    • Exercise - Determine your most expensive resource and see trends
    • Build budgets and alerts
    • Exercise - Create your first budget
    • Summary
  • Module 4: Save money with Azure Reserved Instances
    • Introduction
    • Determine what to purchase
    • Make a purchase
    • View and manage reservations
    • View reservation transactions
    • Monitor and optimize reservation use
    • Analyze and report after reservation purchase
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Optimize Azure costs with data analysis in Power BI
    • Introduction
    • Analyze costs in the Azure Cost Management Power BI app to optimize costs
    • Manage hybrid benefits to reduce the licensing cost of Azure VMs
    • Optimize your Azure reservation use to save money
    • Import data into Power BI Desktop with the Cost Management data connector to better understand your Azure spending
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 6: Configure and manage costs as a Microsoft partner by using Azure Cost Management
    • Introduction
    • Understand cost management scopes
    • Reconcile your bill
    • Take advantage of earned credits
    • Enable cost management for customers
    • Set cost thresholds
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary

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