AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 12.6 - Summary

Pricing

• Subscriptions
  • Every resource belongs to a subscription. An Azure account can have multiple subscriptions. Billing admins control costs. Management groups help you keep track of many subscriptions in an account
• Cost Management
  • Use free accounts and Azure Cost Management to keep costs as low as possible and optimize resources
• Pricing Factors
  • Resource size, resource type, location of the service and bandwidth used all affect the price of a service. Azure Pricing Calculator and Total Cost of Ownership Calculator can help predict costs
• Best Practices
  • Use spending limits, quotas for services, tags to order resources and reserved instances to manage costs and get the best price