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Pros and Cons of Azure Chargeback
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure chargeback is a cost allocation strategy of charging all business units in your organization. The Azure Cost Management Billing Console allows you to create a chargeback model for all business units in your organization.
Design Principles for the 5 Pillars of Azure Well-Architected Framework
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices to help design, test, and monitor the Azure cloud. Azure’s internal team built these principles after studying various patterns from cloud costs to security. Resources that meet Azure Well-Architected best practices are more likely to recover from failures while adapting to changes in workloads. The…
Why You Need to Migrate Your On-Premises IT to Azure Infrastructure
Reading Time: 3 minutes Microsoft Azure is the second leading public cloud provider after AWS (Amazon Web Services). When you migrate an on-premise IT to Azure infrastructure, you will get many services, offers, and third-party tools. You can launch several services like Compute VMs (Virtual Machines), Machine-learning apps, Data analysis, Backup, networking, and many more on Azure Infrastructure. A…
What Is Azure Management and How Can You Do It?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure Management is a framework that defines how users launch and maintain services in the Azure cloud. Azure Management cycle covers all Azure internal tools, Azure CSPs, and other cloud providers linked to Azure infrastructure. The Azure management lifecycle has six phases: The Migration phase deploys your resources from public and on-premise servers to Azure…
Factors to Consider When Creating Azure Chargeback Model
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure chargeback model is a financial management framework of allocating costs for different units in your organization depending on their spending. Designers use this framework to create cost transparency and stick to preset budgets. Implementing an acceptable Azure chargeback model can have numerous benefits for your company. It makes business units aware of the resources…
Azure Tagging Best Practices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure provides organizations with an efficient platform for enterprise-class deployment. However, users find it hard to track resources and automate deployment. So what are Azure tags? Azure tags are user-defined name-value or key-value pairs that enable users to manage, organize, and automate resources. You can use tags to drive various actions, including cost management reporting,…
How to Optimize Cloud Costs with Azure Reserved Instances
Reading Time: 3 minutes Managing cloud tasks can be a considerable challenge, given the complex nature of cloud resources. Azure has many services and resources that can escalate costs if not well managed. As a result, Azure Reserved Instances help users optimize costs effectively. You can use Azure Reserved Instances to access cloud compute capacity at up to a…
What Are the Five Pillars of the Azure Well-architected Framework?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure’s Well-Architected Framework is a set of five pillars that contain best practices in implementing a perfect cloud environment. The Azure Well-Architected Framework helps cloud users build resilient, efficient, secure, and high-performance infrastructure. This framework provides guidance on how to build, deploy, and manage workloads. The five pillars of the Azure well-architected framework are: Security…
How to Use Azure Spot Instances to Save Cloud Costs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure Spot Instances leverage unused compute capacity to help users access Microsoft cloud at a high discount. The prices of Spot Virtual Machines are 90% less than typical on-demand rates, making them an ideal cost-saving alternative. You can use Azure Spot Instances to run temporary workloads that don’t finish within a particular period. You can…