# Cost Management in Azure - Goals - Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure. - Compare the Pricing calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator. - Describe the Microsoft Cost Management Tool. - Describe the purpose of tags. - ## Factors that can affect costs in Azure - CapEx -> OpEx - ### Resource type - Region, Redundancy, Performance Tier, ... - ### Consumption - Pay as you go vs Reservered Resources - ### Maintenance - Deprovision automatically provisioned resources e.g. VMs with network - ### Geography - ### Network Traffic - ## Compare the Pricing and Total Cost of Ownership calculators - Pricing Calculator - Estimate Prices for Scenarios in the Azure Cloud - TCO Calculator - Estimate Prices for move On-Premise -> Cloud - # Governance and compliance - Goals - Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview - Describe the purpose of Azure Policy - Describe the purpose of resource locks - Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal - ## Microsoft Purview - ![Illustration showing the main areas for Microsoft Purview.](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/wwl-azure/describe-features-tools-azure-for-governance-compliance/media/purview-solution-areas-ceb1bedf-6bf29907.png) - Automated data discovery - Sensitive data classification - End-to-end data lineage - Unified data governance - Data Catalog –– This enables data discovery. - Data Sharing –– This shares data within and between organizations. - Data Estate Insights –– This accesses data estate health. - Data Policy –– This governs access to data. - ## Azure Policy - ### Azure Policy initiative - grouping related policies together - ## Resource locks - prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed. - Delete means authorized users can still read and modify a resource, but they can't delete the resource. - ReadOnly means authorized users can read a resource, but they can't delete or update the resource. Applying this lock is similar to restricting all authorized users to the permissions granted by the Reader role. - ## Service Trust portal - https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/ - # Managing and deploying Azure resources - Goals - Describe Azure portal - Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell - Describe the purpose of Azure Arc - Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure ARM templates - ## Azure portal - web-based, unified console - ## Azure Cloud Shell - browser-based shell tool - ## Azure Powershell / Azure CLI - call the Azure REST API to perform management tasks in Azure - Azure CLI uses Bash commands - ## Azure Arc - use Azure Resource Manager - Azure Arc allows you to manage the following resource types hosted outside of Azure: - Servers - Kubernetes clusters - Azure data services - SQL Server - Virtual machines (preview) - # Monitoring Tools in Azure - ## Azure Advisor - displays personalized recommendations for all your subscriptions. - ## Azure Service Health - Service health, and Resource Health, Azure Service Health gives you a complete view of your Azure environment-all the way from the global status of Azure services and regions down to specific resources - ## Azure Monitor - ![An illustration showing the flow of information that Azure Monitor uses to provide monitoring and data visualization.](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/wwl-azure/describe-monitoring-tools-azure/media/azure-monitor-overview-614cd2fd.svg)