Microsoft Licensing Academy. Azure licensing, Part 1 October 2021

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Microsoft Licensing Academy

Azure licensing, Part 1

October 2021

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Agenda

Azure licensing overview Azure purchasing options

• Via an Enterprise Agreement

• Direct from a Microsoft Salesperson

• Via CSP

Azure Cost Management

Useful Resources

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Microsoft Azure

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What is Microsoft Azure?

“The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services

designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-

premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice.

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Azure Global Infrastructure

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Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/

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Types of Azure Services

User Licensed Services

For example:

Azure Active Directory

Azure Information Protection

Azure Advanced Threat Protection for Users

Consumption Services

For example:

Virtual Machines: $/hour

Storage: $/GB & $/transaction Databases: $/GB

Artificial Intelligence: $/transaction

For example:

Marketplace Solutions

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Buying Microsoft Azure

Through a Volume Licensing agreement Direct from Microsoft

via the website

Through the Cloud Solution

Provider program

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Microsoft Azure Subscriptions

Azure Subscriptions are tied to a payment mechanism

• Enterprise Agreement

• Credit card

• CSP account

• Billing account

As Azure resources are

created they are assigned to Azure Subscriptions

Multiple Azure

Subscriptions are allowed on a single tenant

Names of Azure

Subscriptions may

be customized

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Paying for Azure Consumption Services

Azure prepayment

Volume Licensing agreements

An “Azure prepayment” amount is paid

As services are used, this amount decreases

Monthly in arrears

Direct from Microsoft and CSP

Invoices are issued monthly in arrears for

the services that the customer has used

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Azure Pricing Calculator: Windows VM

https:/ /azu re.m icros oft .com /pric ing/calc ul at or

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Managing Resources

Azure Management Portal

Volume Licensing

Used directly by customers purchasing through all Volume Licensing agreements

Direct from Microsoft

Used directly by customers purchasing through the web portal or from a Microsoft salesperson

CSP Either used by partners on behalf of customers, or access is granted to customers

https://portal.azure.com

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Understanding your options for purchasing

Microsoft products and services

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Enterprise Agreement

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Buying through the

Enterprise Agreement (EA)

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Buying Azure consumption services through the EA

Commit to Enterprise Products for all Qualified Devices

• Make an upfront Azure prepayment of a minimum of $100 per month

Enterprise Agreement

Enterprise Enrollment Server and Cloud Enrollment

Commit to Azure

• Make an upfront Azure prepayment of a minimum of $1,000 per month

Commit to a server product

• Pay for services used monthly in arrears, or

• Make an upfront Azure prepayment of a

minimum of $100 per month

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Direct from a Microsoft salesperson with

Microsoft Customer Agreement

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Buying from your Microsoft sales team through the Microsoft Customer

Agreement

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What’s available?

• All of the Azure services which are charged on a consumption basis (e.g., virtual machines)

• Reservations

How do customers pay?

• Invoiced either monthly in arrears or via Azure prepayment

• 1 or 3-year term, paid for upfront

• Developer, Standard, and Professional Direct plans

• Invoiced upfront monthly

Microsoft Azure Services

Azure Support Plans

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Azure through the Cloud Solution

Provider Program

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Buying from a Microsoft partner in

the Cloud Solution Provider program

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The Azure plan

Partner Center

Azure Management Portal Transact “Azure plan” offer

Azure Subscription Rename, if required

Create additional Subscriptions Provision and manage resources

Billing

Monthly in arrears

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The Azure plan

The Azure plan links a partner and customer, and groups Subscriptions together from a billing perspective

Partner:

VMs-R-Us

Partner:

We-R-IoT

Azure plan: + Azure plan: +

Customer:

Wingtip Toys

Subscription: VMs 1

Subscription: VMs 2

Subscription: IoT

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In reviewing your purchasing options,

consider the following:

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Azure Cost Management

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Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management gives you the tools to plan for, analyze and reduce your spending to maximize your cloud investment

What are we spending, on what?

How much do the services cost ? How much hav e w e spent so far this month ?

Will we stay within budget?

What are our spending trends?

Are there any spending anomalies?

How do our spending habits

change month-over-month?

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Azure Advisor

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Azure Advisor: cost recommendations

Optimize virtual machine spend by resizing or shutting down underutilized instances

Monitors VM usage for 7 days and identifies VMs with CPU utilization of 5% or less and network utilization of less than 2%, or VMs where the current workload can be accommodated by a smaller virtual machine size

Recommend Reserved Instances

Reviews VM usage over the last 30 days to see if money could be saved by purchasing a Reserved Instance

Identify resources that could be deleted

Idle virtual network gateways

Unprovisioned ExpressRoute circuits Unassociated public IP addresses Failing Azure Data Factory pipelines