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Weave cost management into people and processes, adopt FinOps, and leverage the Cloud Center of Excellence and cloud operating model, plus showback and chargeback for accountable, efficient cloud usage.
Adopt a cloud operating model with a cloud center of excellence and FinOps practices to govern, operate, and optimize cloud costs and resources.
Auto scaling uses cloud elasticity to match demand, reduce waste, and leverage the pay-for-use model while maintaining performance. It scales vertically or horizontally with a load balancer.
Discover Azure savings plans, a flexible billing option saving up to 65% on compute costs with a fixed hourly spend for one or three years, comparable to reservations.
Compare reservations and savings plans in Azure finops to decide where to commit costs. Choose reservations for service coverage and higher discounts; savings plans provide compute flexibility and easier exchanges.
Explore Azure native tools and resources for cost management, including pricing models, the pricing and total cost of ownership calculators, budgets, alerts, and cost data analysis with Power BI.
Explore Azure pricing steps by filtering Ubuntu Linux general purpose DV5 VMs in US, compare pay-as-you-go, 3-year savings plan, and 3-year reserved pricing, then add a 1 TB SSD disk.
Estimate and compare total cost of ownership for migrating workloads to Azure using the total cost of ownership calculator, analyzing on-prem costs, migration expenses, and Azure services to reveal savings.
Configure cost data fields and cost analysis tool to visualize Azure spend by resource groups for storage and virtual machines, and by subscription for non-marketplace charges in US West region.
Set up budgets in cost management to monitor actual and forecasted costs with scopes and alerts, driving accountability and optional actions when thresholds breach.
Compare general purpose and memory-optimized vm families using a 4-cpu, 24gb workload to reveal cost differences and the importance of right-sizing and choosing the optimal Azure vm family.
Identify the right database type to optimize costs, from relational SQL to NoSQL options—key-value, graph, in-memory, document, and columnar, with practical selection guidance.
Discover strategies to reduce cloud costs by cleaning up sandbox environments with expiration tags and automated runbooks in Azure. Centralized teams can periodically delete unused resources.
This is a comprehensive & detailed video series that goes broader & deeper than other courses on this topic. Pound for pound, the most thorough coverage of Azure Cost Optimization considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the expert level in Azure Solution Architecture and professional level in AWS Solution Architecture.
Learn why:
Companies waste $90 Billion+ yearly in public cloud spend
94% of Enterprises are Significantly overspending on public cloud
#1 Cloud Challenge for 82% of organizations: Managing Cloud Spend
…and how to fix it!
Actual Recent Reviews from Udemy:
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"THE best online course I've taken. Packed with high quality lessons. Can't recommend this enough."
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"Great presentation style and concise course materials. Highly recommended."
Course Benefits
Level up your career & get a higher paying job with FinOps
Become the cost-saving hero at your organization
Save your company 30-40% on your Azure cloud bill
Learn enterprise-grade best practices from an expert in the field
Gain 100+ optimization ideas for your cloud toolbelt
Course Differentiators
Enterprise-grade practices & principles taught by an expert with proven results
Helps you understand & Fix the root of the problem that leads to waste
Sustainable strategies to prevent waste from the start
Quantity of Cost-Saving Optimizations
Production & Editing Quality
Breadth of Quality topic coverage
Nearly all of the cloud cost management principles taught apply to other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services AWS, Google Cloud Platform GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI. However the tooling, resources, and many of the techniques are specific to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Save money in Azure. Save money in the cloud!
Instructor
I’m currently a Principal Cloud Architect. I’ve been working in IT for over 25 years and working in cloud computing for almost the past 10 years. I’ve held technical and leadership roles focused on development, operations, engineering, and architecture. And I hold professional & expert level certifications in AWS and Azure clouds.
I’ve led FinOps practices, created world-class cloud cost reporting dashboards in Power BI, trained teams on cloud financial management best practices, and led company-wide cloud savings and optimization initiatives for AWS and Azure clouds, saving over 10M dollars in spend.
Course Statistics
78 Videos
7+ Hours of Lectures
100+ Quiz Questions
75 Exam Questions
100+ Optimizations
1 Purpose (Save [& ultimately make] Money)
Who Course is For
Anyone using Azure who works in IT, engineering, finance, procurement, product ownership, executives or leadership will benefit from this expert guidance.
Technology – CIO, Cloud Managers, Architects, Engineers, Developers, Data
Finance – CFO, Finance Managers, Cloud Financial Analysts
Anyone requesting or deploying resources in the cloud
Anyone wanting to save money in the cloud or master Azure Cost Management
This course also comes with:
Lifetime access to all future updates
A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section
Udemy Certificate of Completion for Download
30-day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee
Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass Microsoft Exams for certification like AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, DP-900
Prerequisites
The Prerequisites for this course are a working understanding of IT concepts and fundamental understanding of Azure & Cloud computing concepts.
What are you waiting for! Enroll now & let’s get started!