It is very important to
have tight control of the cost and manage it efficiently. Cloud Computing
has two major tasks. i.e. Store Data and execute code. Networking is an
essential element used to tie systems together and implement security.
Compute services are those that take your code
and execute it in the cloud. There are several compute resources (around 20) in
azure. All these services have virtual machines as their core. Examples are
AKS, VMSS, etc
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Type |
Description |
Key points |
Factors impact storage cost |
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Unmanaged Storage |
It relies on the user to
monitor and react to the accounts |
The storage account has a
maximum capacity. 5 PiB |
GB's Used |
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It has Operations per
second limit |
IO Operations |
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Violations will get errors
but the advantage is paid for what you use |
Region |
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Nothing will be changed if
no data is in a storage account |
Redundancy |
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Unmanaged storage is
extremely cheap |
Access tier(Premium, hot,
cool, Archive) |
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Managed Storage |
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Managed disks. Used by VM's |
premium disks are very
expensive |
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e.g.: HDD, (Sold
Premium, Ultra) SSD |
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Guidelines and recommendations for optimizing
storage cost.
Total Storage cost covers the cost to
store data and the cost to perform file operations
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Costs to store files |
Cost to perform File
Operations(listing, writing, reading on storage accounts) |
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Are you storing log files
for many months that you may not need? |
If you expecting millions
of reads and writes per month, it might be cheaper to use a premium storage
tier that hot one |
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Are you storing memory
dumps? |
Premium storage is used
more for storage and less for access. Recommended · Production
load Premium disks, · Standard
disks - for QA/Dev |
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Are you storing System
backups from years/months ago with no regulatory reasons to keep them |
if a file is placed in the
cool tier, it will be charged for a min of 30 days even if you delete before
then |
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if
you delete VM, ensure deleting associated DISK |
Sometimes,
People enable read access geo-redundant storage which is 3 or 4 times of
local redundant storage. |
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Premium charges most for
storage but charges less for reading, if storage performance is a primary
concern then select premium, if this file is not used frequently then it
should move to the cool tier. If you don't need that file, you can reduce
costs further by moving to the archive |
Redundancy impacts costs -
LRS is cheap and RA-GRS is expensive. |
Other Services
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App Service |
Are you creating
different appservice plan for multiple webapps |
Creating different app
service plans may not be needed. Create it only when there is capacity
requirements |
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AKS |
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Dev, Test, and
non-business hrs. reduce to zero instance cluster |
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Networking |
single app gateway can
host multiple applications |
same with respect to WAF |
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Media Services |
streaming can be standard
and premium |
98% of workload standard
is fine, encoding can be done 2 ways |
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App Insights |
data ingestion |
90 days is free, enables
data sampling(50%/75%), Keep a daily cap on data |
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Log Analytics |
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Leverage Reserve capacity
for data ingestion |
