Saving Your Wallet From The Cloud

ABSTRACT

The major cloud providers--such as Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, and Google's GCP--each offer dozens of separate services. These services can be quite useful, but sometimes understanding just how much they cost can be difficult. In this talk, we will focus on Microsoft Azure, getting an understanding of how pricing works for different services. This talk will help demystify some of the trickier aspects of the Azure pricing calculator, show cases where alternative configurations can provide similar levels of service at wildly different prices, and give you insights on how to keep that cloud bill as low as possible.

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Director's Cut

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Helpful Resources

This is a companion talk to Getting Stuck in the Cloud, an introduction to clouds and Azure.

Microsoft has the Well-Architected Framework, which includes a pillar on cost optimization.

For specific guidance, Microsoft also provides Well-Architected Framework review assessments for certain products.

Dennes Torres gives a great overview of cost management tips in Azure.

The Azure pricing calculator is great if you have a solid idea of your needs.

Azure Migrate can give you an idea of what your service requirements look like in terms of CPU, disk speed, and memory needs.

ScienceSoft has a nice guide on migrating applications to Azure.

Create and manage Azure budgets.

Use cost alerts to monitor usage and spending.