1. Azure Cost Management Optimise Azure Costs
Nico Martens
Technical Lead, Portiva, Netherlands

2. Nico Martens Technical Lead @
@martensnico

3. Agenda

4. What do you need?
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization

5. Cost Visibility
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization

6. Bring the best together

7. Cost analysis
Analyze your cloud costs from 1 dashboard
Export data

8. Cost recommendations Get recommendations based on Out-of-the-box rules
Azure Advisor
You can tweak the rules !

9. Power BI

10. Cost visibility - Demo

11. Cost accountability Budgets Management Groups Tagging Policies
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization
Budgets
Management Groups
Tagging
Policies

12. Budgets Monitor costs in a particular subscription
Send notification when reaching threshold
Action groups

13. Management Groups Logical representation for your organization
Governance over subscriptions
Set conditions by applying policies

14. Tags
Most resources can be “tagged” to organize Azure resources

15. Policies Enforce rules defined by your organization
Policy definitions (JSON)
Policy assignments

16. Cost visibility - Demo
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization

17. Cost optimization Traditional vs Azure Reserved instances
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization
Traditional vs Azure
Reserved instances
Hybrid benefit

18. Traditional vs Azure

19. Traditional vs Azure
On-premises
Azure

20. Reserved Instances
Reserve capacity for 1 or 3 years for massive discounts

21. Hybrid benefit A.k.a. Bring your own license (BYOL) Works for:
Windows Server
SQL Server VMs
SQL Datababase

22. Hybrid benefit Switching from PAYG to BYOL (Windows Server):
$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroup "<rg name>" -Name "<vm name>"
$vm.LicenseType = "Windows_Server"
Update-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName <rg-name> -VM $vm

23. Hybrid benefit Switching from PAYG to BYOL (SQL Server):
$SqlVm = Get-AzResource -ResourceType Microsoft.SqlVirtualMachine/SqlVirtualMachines -ResourceGroupName <resource_group_name> -ResourceName <VM_name>
$SqlVm.Properties.sqlServerLicenseType="AHUB"
$SqlVm | Set-AzResource -Force

24. Recap Cost Management Enterprise portal Cloudyn Advisor Optimization
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization
Cost Management
Enterprise portal
Cloudyn
Advisor

25. Recap
Budgets
Tags
Management groups
Policies

26. Recap
Rethink architecture
Reserved instances
Hybrid benefit (BYOL)

27. Questions?
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28. Windows Sandbox to the rescue
Next session 14:45 – 15:45
Windows Sandbox to the rescue
Ronald Beekelaar