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Review Microsoft Azure pricing, service level agreements, and lifecycles…

- - - - Enviroments: Resourices
      - Organizational structures
        
        deparments
      - Billing: Based on workloads
      - Subscription limits: Subscriptions are bound to some hard limitations. For example, the maximum number of Express Route circuits per subscription is 10.
      - Subscritons offers
        
        Free account: 12 months for free services, credit card 30 days, 25 services always free
        
        Pay-As-You-Go
        
        Member offers.
        
        Your existing membership to certain Microsoft products and services affords you credits for your Azure account and reduced rates on Azure services.
    - - Management groups
        
        10,000 management groups can be supported in a single directory.
        
        A management group tree can support up to six levels of depth.
        
        This limit doesn't include the Root level or the subscription level.
        
        Each management group and subscription can only support one parent.
        
        Each management group can have many children.
      - Subscriptions
        
        A subscription groups together user accounts and the resources that have been created by those user accounts.
      - Resource groups:
        
        A resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed.
      - Resources
        
        Resources are instances of services that you create, like virtual machines, storage, or SQL databases.
- - - - Compute Hours
      - IP Address Hours
      - Data Transfer In
      - Data Transfer Out
      - Standard Managed Disk
      - Standard Managed Disk Operations
      - Standard IO-Disk
      - Standard IO-Block Blob Read
      - Standard IO-Block Blob Write
      - Standard IO-Block Blob Delete
    - - , any potential savings you make from choosing the cheapest location could be offset by the additional cost of transferring data between those resources.
  - - - Region. Lists the regions from which you can provision a product. Southeast Asia, central Canada, the western United States, and Northern Europe are among the possible regions available for some resources.
      - Tier. Sets the type of tier you wish to allocate to a selected resource, such as Free Tier, Basic Tier, etc.
      - Billing Options. Highlights the billing options available to different types of customer and subscriptions for a chosen product.
      - Support Options: Allows you to pick from included or paid support pricing options for a selected product.
      - Programs and Offers. Allows you to choose from available price offerings according to your customer or subscription type.
      - Azure Dev/Test Pricing. Lists the available development and test prices for a product. Dev/Test pricing applies only when you run resources within an Azure subscription that is based on a Dev/Test offer.
    - - Define your workloads
        
        Servers. Enter details of your current on-premises server infrastructure.
        
        Databases. Enter details of your on-premises database infrastructure in the Source section. In the Destination section, select the corresponding Azure service you would like to use.
        
        Storage. Enter the details of your on-premises storage infrastructure.
        
        Networking. Enter the amount of network bandwidth you currently consume in your on-premises environment.
        
        View report
        
        Explore minimizing costs
        
        The Azure Advisor feature identifies unused or under-utilized resources, and you can implement its recommendations by removing unused resources and configuring your resources to match your actual demand.
      - Use Azure Reservations
        
        Azure Reservations offer discounted prices on certain Azure products and resources. To get a discount, you reserve products and resources by paying in advance. You can pre-pay for one year or three years of use of Virtual Machines, SQL Database Compute Capacity, Azure Cosmos Database Throughput, and other Azure resources.
      - Apply tags to identify cost owners
        
        Tags help you manage costs associated with the different groups of Azure products and resources. You can apply tags to groups of Azure products and resources to organize billing data. For example, if you run several virtual machines for different teams, you can use tags to categorize costs by department, such as Human Resources, Marketing, or Finance, or by environment, such as Production or Test. Tags make it easy to identify groups that generate the biggest Azure costs, so you can adjust your spending accordingly.
      - Define Azure Cost Management
        
        Reporting. Generate reports using historical data to forecast future usage and expenditure.
        
        Data enrichment. Improve accountability by categorizing resources with tags that correspond to real-world business and organizational units.
        
        Budgets. Create and manage cost and usage budgets by monitoring resource demand trends, consumption rates, and cost patterns.
        
        Alerting. Get alerts based on your cost and usage budgets.
        
        Recommendations. Receive recommendations to eliminate idle resources and to optimize the Azure resources you provision.
        
        Price. Free to Azure customers.
- - - - SLAs describe Microsoft's commitment to providing Azure customers with certain performance standards.
      - There are SLAs for individual Azure products and services.
      - SLAs also specify what happens if a service or product fails to perform to a governing SLA's specification.
    - - For example, customers may have a discount applied to their Azure bill, as compensation for an under-performing Azure product or service.