Azure Subscription Management

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Best Practices for Azure Subscription &
Billing Management
David Pitcher – InCycle Software
Agenda
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How to Buy Azure
Pay-as-you-go
Prepaid Subscription
Enterprise Agreement
Credentials used by Azure
Microsoft Account
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Formerly known as Windows Live ID
Email Address + Password
Used to sign into Microsoft based services such as Outllook.com, OneDrive,
Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE
Connect to other services like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, flickr
Work or School Account
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Created by an organization’s administrator to enable access to Microsoft
cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Windows Intune, Office 365.
Based on Azure Active Directory
Azure EA Enrollment
Best Prices
Purchase Simplicity
Annual Payments
Enterprise
Management Portal
Get the best Azure prices
based on their infrastructure
spend—regardless of their
upfront Azure commitment.
Discounts are provided for
commodity services like
compute, storage and
bandwidth .
Enterprise Agreement
customers can pay Microsoft
at the end of the year for
unplanned growth, as long as
use is within certain
thresholds.
Microsoft has also extended
those same great rates to
unplanned growth customers
have on Azure, so they can
grow as their organizations’
need.
A great resource for managing
multiple accounts or
subscriptions.
Azure Management Roles
Azure Management Portals
Department/Account Management
Enterprise
Administrator
Enterprise
Enterprise
Department
Administrator
Finance
Marketing
Account
Owner
John Doe
Jane Smith
Service
Administrator
Dev
Test
Prod
Medical
Fred Dry
Service 1
Service 2
Enterprise
Aerospace
Lisa Bar
Service 3
Asia
Ted Bear
Portfolio 1
Portfolio 2
Europe
Grace Ma
Portfolio 3
Introducing
the Azure EA…
EA MSDN
Dev/TestOffer
Available
Now
Same great EA
rates on most
Azure services
All usage consumes
Azure Monetary
Commitment funds
Best rates
for Cloud Services,
HDInsight, VMs and
Websites
Pay Just the
equivalent size
and type of a
Linux VM rate
No additional
charges for VMs
running Microsoft
software
The Best ofBoth Worlds
OneBill
Azure Monetary Commitment
Covers both Production and Dev/Test workloads
BestRates
EA Rates for Production. EA Rates or better (e.g. for
VMs) for development and testing
NoCompromises
All MSDN images available in EA MSDN Dev/Test offer
Dev/Test
no SLA and
restricted to MSDN
subscribers
The best
offer available for
Dev & Test on
Azure!
Account Owners – MSDN Subscribers
Subscription Administration
Subscription Identification
Subscription Service Admin Access
Subscription RBAC Access
Azure Service Admin vs. Azure RBAC
Azure RBAC Roles
CORE ROLES
Role name
Permissions
Owner
Full management rights
Contributor
Full management rights except for user management
Reader
View resources and their settings
None
Does not see resources
RESOURCE TYPE SPECIFIC ROLES
Role name
Permissions
*** Contributor
Full management rights except for user management on specific types of
resources.
Examples: Virtual Machine Contributor, SQL DB Contributor
Subscription Access Management
Notifications
- Threshold is 1.5x
Monetary Commitment
- Monetary Commitment
Balance
- Coverage Period End
Approaching Email
- Notifications sent at
50%,75%, 90%, and
100% of threshold
- Unbilled Overage Usage
- Notifications sent at
60, 30, 7 days prior to
Azure EA end date
- Exceed threshold, billing
changes from annual to
quarterly
- Opportunity to add to
existing commitment
- Disable and Deprovision Date
Approaching
- Notification sent at 60,
30, 15, 7 and 1 days
prior to end of period
Department Spending Quotas
$$ of Monetary
Commitment
Managed per
department
Notifications
sent at 50%,
75%, 90% and
100%
Auto rollover
to next
commitment
term
Access Usage Reports
Enterprise Administrators
Department Administrators
Account Owners
Reports – Usage Summary
Reports – Download Usage
Reports – Power BI
Default Dashboard: Customize and drill down
by clicking.
Default Reports: Customize and drill down by
clicking.
Datasets: Update automatically or can be
refreshed on demand and you can build your
own Dashboards and Reports from the dataset.
Closing Remarks & Next
Steps:
1. Azure Management Optimization: 5 Days
Governance & Reporting Usage Optimization
• Define EA/Account Structure
• Configuration review
• Analyze departments and cost center management
• Business Intelligence with Power BI
• Develop reports and schedule notifications
• Reconcile budget vs. actual spend
• Understand Usage Patterns
• Optimize Existing Resource
• Size resources for best performance-to-price ratio
• Automate power-on/off
• Dispose of unnecessary resources
• Recommendations
• Process and practices
• Architecture
• EA commitments
Schedule today! [email protected] 1-800-565-0510
2. Azure Management Jumpstart: 2 Days
Governance Overview
Usage Planning
• Introduction to EA Portal
• Resource Management
• Automation
• Account and structure
• Departments and cost centers
• Security and roles
• Business Intelligence with Power BI
• Define reports and schedule notifications
• Set-up budget
• Size resources for best performance-to-price ratio
• Resource scheduling
• Dynamic scaling
• Recommendations
• Process and practices
• Architecture
Schedule today! [email protected] 1-800-565-0510
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