Most common subscriptions: Free, Pay-As-You-Go, Enterprise Agreement &
Student.
For our organization, we can choose a combination of collection options and
subscription options
to suit your business circumstances.
If you only have a few subscriptions, it's easy to manage them independently. But
what if you
have a lot of subscriptions? You can then create a management group hierarchy to
help manage
your memberships and resources.
(Source: Microsoft Documentation)
Manage costs by using alerts, budgets, and recommendations
Cost control is a key factor in maximizing the value of your investment in the cloud. There are many
scenarios where cost visibility, reporting, and cost-based orchestration are critical to sustaining business
operations.
With Azure products and services, you only pay for what you use. When you create and use Azure
resources, you are charged for the resources. Microsoft Cost Management provides support for
administrative billing tasks and helps you manage billing access to expenses.
(Source: Microsoft Documentation)
Cost analysis is used to explore and analyze your organizational costs. You can
view
aggregated costs by an organization to understand where costs have increased and
identify cost
trends. Monitor accumulated costs over time to assess monthly, quarterly or annual
cost trends
against budget.
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Budgets are commonly used as part of cost control and features are used to
establish and
maintain budgets. This helps prevent exceeding spending limits or limits. You can
use analytics
data to inform others about their spending to proactively manage spending.
Budgeting features
help you see how a company's spending is developing over time.
Recommendations can optimize and improve efficiency by identifying idle and
unused
resources. This can reveal less expensive resource options. Using the
recommendations, you
can change the way you use your resources to save money.
Cost Alerts are used to monitor your Azure usage and spending. Cost alerts are
automatically
generated when Azure resources are consumed. Alerts show all active expense
management
and billing alerts in one place.
There are three types: Budget alerts, Credit alerts, and Department spending quota
alerts.
Configuring Azure Management Groups
Governance in Azure is one aspect of Azure Management. Management groups help
you to
organize or manage resources and subscriptions in Azure. Management groups give
you
enterprise-grade management at scale, no matter what type of subscriptions you
have. However,
all subscriptions in the same management group must trust the same Microsoft
Entra ID tenant.
Organizations using multiple memberships need a way to efficiently manage
access, policies and
compliance. Azure management groups provide a level of scope and control over
your
subscriptions. You can use management groups as containers to manage access,
policy, and
compliance across your subscriptions. You can create a management group with
Azure Policy by
using the Portal, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
Azure Management Groups Characteristics
● A single directory can support up to 10,000 management groups.
● The root management group cannot be moved or deleted unlike other
management groups.
● All new subscriptions are placed under the top-level management group or the
root group.
● The management group tree supports up to six levels of depth.
● Azure RBAC authorization is not enabled by default for management group
operations.
When using management groups in Azure Policy to manage subscriptions,
there are
a few things you need to consider → Custom hierarchies and groups, Policy
inheritance,
Compliance rules, and Cost reporting.
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Implement and Manage Storage
Introduction to Azure Storage
Azure offers several ways to store your data, including multiple database options
such as SQL
Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Table Storage.
Azure provides several ways to store and send messages, such as queues and event
hubs. You
can also store loose files using services like Azure Files and Azure Blobs. A storage
account is a
container that groups together a set of Azure Storage services. Only data services
from Azure
Storage are included in the storage account.
Azure Storage is a service that you can
- Used to store files, Messages, Tables, and other types of information.
- Developers use Azure Storage for working data(websites, mobile & desktop
applications)
- It is also used by IaaS and PaaS cloud services.
Azure Storage - Services, Types, and Benefits