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Microsoft Azure Cost Management Billing Budget

Set a budget in your Azure Subscription

Let’s explore cost management and budgets in Azure today. Azure Budgets are easy to setup and use – and it will take less time to set up the cost control than to explain spending too much to your boss. Join me for a quick tour of budgeting in Azure…

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Microsoft Azure Cloud

Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Quota Challenge

Today we take a deeper look at Spot VMs in Azure and how to request a quota limit increase for all virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings in exchange for letting Azure remove VMs if a pay-as-you-go or reserved instance needs those resources.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud

Using Azure Spot Instances

Today we take a look at Spot VMs in Azure and what it’s all about. Spot VMs allow you to take advantage of unused capacity on Azure VM hosts at a significant cost savings; but there is a catch. Your VMs can be evicted if Azure needs the capacity back. This style of VM hosting can be used for low-priority workloads and managed using a few different settings. Let’s explore Spot VMs in Azure together!

Posted on 12:35 pm
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Cost Analysis Projected Cost of Tagged Resources

Using Resource Tags in Cost Managment

Today we dive into pulling the cost breakdowns so we can bill back costs to other departments by using Azure tags attached to different resources. Last week we discussed how tags can be used for different reasons and walked through setting tags up for a resource….

Read the full article at the link below…

Posted on 11:26 am
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Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup – Selective Disk Backup and Restore

Azure Preview announced that Selective disk backup and restore will be available upon request in Preview.

This is a great step towards making your Azure subscriptions more cost effective and reducing duplicated backup services.

Read the article at the link below…

Posted on 11:55 am