1. How to Control Costs and Charge Backs in Azure
Chris Seferlis – Practice Manager

2. About me: Former CIO – 20+ years in IT
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About me:
Former CIO – 20+ years in IT
Worked with Microsoft Data Platform for about 10 years
Speak, blog,
US Army Veteran
LinkedIn: cseferlis
blog.pragmaticworks.com
blog.bizdataviz.com

3. Azure Cost Management… Historically
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Azure Cost Management… Historically
Cost overrun horror stories
Datacenters
Egress charges
Bandwidth overages
Cloudyn developed then acquired
Azure Cost Management created and expanded

4. Planning Key Groups: What workloads are being developed/deployed?
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Planning
Key Groups:
Finance
Management
Dev Team(s)
What workloads are being developed/deployed?
Who is ultimately responsible?
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail – Benjamin Franklin

5. Plans and Licensing Enterprise Agreements (EAs)
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Plans and Licensing
Enterprise Agreements (EAs)
Prepay
Pay as you go plans (PAYG)
MSDN Dev Accounts -
Monthly Azure Credits
Reserved Instances -
1-3 year plans for VMs and SQL DBs
Hybrid Use Benefit (HUB) -

6. Planning Tools Azure Pricing Calculator - https://bit.ly/2LwbiNr
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Planning Tools
Azure Pricing Calculator -
Azure Migrate -
Azure Database Migration Service -
Azure App Service Migration Assessment -
Azure Migration Center -
Cloud Economics Program

7. Keys to successful cost management
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Keys to successful cost management
Visibility
Accountability
Optimization
Rinse/Repeat

8. Visibility Make teams aware of their spend Set up Budgets
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Visibility
Make teams aware of their spend
Tagging of resources
Set up Budgets
Alerts/Notifications
Eliminate unnecessary expenditure

9. Accountability Segment expenses by subscriptions and resource groups
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Accountability
Segment expenses by subscriptions and resource groups
Review monthly invoice within groups and compare against budgets – investigate anomalies
Use cost analysis for future planning

10. Optimization Monitor Compute Consider HUBs and RIs
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Optimization
Monitor Compute
Configure “Auto-Turnoff” Options
Develop Scaling Plans for peak times with Azure Automation
Create Policies and Governance plans
Consider HUBs and RIs
Compare to AWS (if familiar)
Consider Alternate Regions
Enable Dev/Test Solutions
Use PaaS over IaaS

11. Budgets Plan for and drive accountability
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Budgets
Plan for and drive accountability
Send notifications when budget limits are hit
Updated every 4 hours
Trigger Action Groups
(ITSM, Logic Apps, Runbooks, etc)
Track spending over time
Reset each new period

12.
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Azure Advisor
Get proactive, actionable, and personalized best practices recommendations
Improve the performance, security, and high availability of your resources
Get recommendations with proposed actions inline

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Demo Time!

14. Have Any Questions? Thank you for your time! t: @bizdataviz
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Have Any Questions?
Thank you for your time!
@pragmaticworks @bizdataviz
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youtube.com/pragmaticworks

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Additional Resources
mgt-best-practices
acm-create-budgets
management-budget-scenario
monitor/platform/action-groups-logic-app
available-in-action-groups/