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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
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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
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Microsoft Purview

- 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.
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Azure Policy
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Azure Policy initiative
- grouping related policies together
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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.
- prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.
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Service Trust portal
- Goals
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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
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Azure portal
- web-based, unified console
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Azure Cloud Shell
- browser-based shell tool
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Azure Powershell / Azure CLI
- call the Azure REST API to perform management tasks in Azure
- Azure CLI uses Bash commands
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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)
- Goals
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Monitoring Tools in Azure
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Azure Advisor
- displays personalized recommendations for all your subscriptions.
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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
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Azure Monitor
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