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Subscriptions

Resource tagging

  • 💡Always tag!
  • Tags are additional metadata that can be assigned to resources/resource groups.
    • ❗ Child resources do not inherit resource groups tags
    • ❗ Max 15 tag name/value pairs.
  • E.g. CostCenter = YHZ
  • Why?
    • Organize
    • Search
    • View
    • Billing & cost managements
  • On Portal
    • You can search for Tags and see filtered lists.
    • ❗ Resources are tagged after resource is created as opposed to PowerShell/CLI.

Resource Tagging and Cost Center Spending Limits

Spending Limits

  • Applies to free trial subcriptions, MSDN and Visual Studio subscriptions.
    • If spending limit is exceeded:
      1. Email message is sent
      2. Deployed resources are disabled in next billing cycle.
      3. Databases and storage accounts become read-only
    • Free trials can be upgraded to Pay-as-you-go
  • Do not apply to support plans, pay-as-you-go, Enterprise Dev/Test

ARM Consumption API

  • Returns usage details
  • ❗ Supported only in Enterprise enrollments and Web Direct subscriptions
  • Available through CLI and different SDKs.
  • Consumption APIs
    • Enterprise customers only: Price Sheet, Budgets, Balance
    • Reserved VMs: Reservation Summaries API, Reservation Details API, Reservation recommendations API
    • Others: Marketplace charges, usage details

Azure Pricing Calculator

  • Estimates monthly costs
  • See online

Azure Advisor Cost Recomendations

  • Identifies wastage
  • E.g. idle VMs, SQL DBs.
    • Can configure automatic shutdown
    • Auto-shutdown option in VM.
  • Recommendations about:
    • High availability
    • Security
    • Performance
    • Cost recommendations, e.g.:
      • Virtual machine reserved instances to reduce costs.
      • VM resizing: Scale up / down
      • Remove unprovisioned ExpressRoute circuits.
  • Configure rule:
    • E.g. Average CPU Utilization < 5%

Subscription blade

  • In Cost analysis you can filter by Tags.
  • Invoices
  • Manage in Subscription blade
    • Manage payment methods
      • 💡 Adding one allows you to remove subscription limits.
    • Download usage details
    • Transfer/cancel subscription
    • Set-up billing alerts
      • E.g. e-mail if billing total is $150

Optimizing VM costs

  • 📝 Use VM Reserved Instances
    • You can create one in Reservations blade
  • 📝 Set-up auto shutdown in VMs
    • Auto-shutdown blade in VM.

Microsoft Azure Resource Providers

  • Enables Azure features.
  • Many are registered automatically
    • E.g. Microsoft.Compute that handles VMs, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Sql, Microsoft.Storage
  • Some are not registered automatically
    • E.g. Microsoft.PolicyInsights, Microsoft.AzureActiveDirectory, Microsoft.AzureStack, Microsoft.Botservice
    • Custom providers can be registered with subscription.
      • Requires the Contributor or Owner roles.
      • In most cases providers are registered automatically when you deploy resources that uses the providers.
  • You can register, unregister, re-register through Subscription → Resource providers in Portal