This document discusses how to deliver value using Azure without incurring costs. It provides examples of using various Azure services like Azure Policy, Azure Cost Management, Azure Advisor, and Azure DevOps to optimize costs. It also shares demos and best practices for governance, security, performance, availability, and reducing costs. Examples are given showing how common workloads like a conversational chatbot, decentralized banking system, and ecommerce site can be built on Azure with minimal costs.

1. Deliver value within Azure without
spending a penny!
Sarah Lean
Claudia Lopez
Cloud Advocate | Microsoft
Senior Cloud Solution Architect | Microsoft

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Show you what’s possible
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5. How much will it cost?

6. It depends.

7. Managed
Disks
Storage
Tier Replication Region Traffic
Design Decisions
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10. Resource tags Categorize across
different resource groups
and subscriptions
Identify common tags
(such as CostCenter,
ApplicationOwner)
Portal, Templates,
PowerShell, Azure CLI,
REST API
Enforce usage with
Azure Policy
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12. Azure Policy
Restrict expensive
SKUs
Block regions
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13. Azure Policy Demo
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15. Azure Cost Management
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16. Azure Cost Management
Demo
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18. Best Practices
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High availability Security Performance Cost
Increase availability of
your business-critical
apps
Better protect your
Azure resources from
security threats
Boost the speed and
responsiveness of your
resources
Maximize the return
on your Azure
investment
Azure Advisor
• Best practices to optimize your Azure workloads
• Personalized recommendations, prioritized and customizable based on your needs
• Simple, step-by-step guidance and quick links
• One place to review and act on recommendations across Azure
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20. Azure Advisor Demo
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22. Azure Update Management
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24. Azure DevOps
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25. Deliver value to your users faster
using proven agile tools to plan,
track, and discuss work across
your teams.
Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that
works with any language, platform,
and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any
other Git provider and deploy
continuously.
Get unlimited, cloud-hosted
private Git repos and collaborate
to build better code with pull
requests and advanced file
management.
Test and ship with confidence
using manual and exploratory
testing tools.
Create, host, and share packages with
your team, and add artifacts to your
CI/CD pipelines with a single click.
Azure Boards Azure ReposAzure Pipelines
Azure Test Plans Azure Artifacts
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
Better together

26. Basic Plan
1 Free Microsoft-hosted CI/CD
1 Free Self-Hosted CI/CD
Work item tracking and Kanban boards
Unlimited private Git repos
2GB Free
First 5 users free
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27. Solutions
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28. Making Governance Actionable with Native Tools
• Azure Blueprints
• Azure Policy
• Azure Cost
Management
• Azure Advisor
• Azure Portal
• Azure EA Content
Pack
• Azure Blueprints
• Azure Policy
• Azure Security Center
• Azure Sentinel
• Subscription Design
• Encryption
• Hybrid Identity
• Azure Networking
• Azure Automation
• Azure Blueprints
• Azure Policy
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Advisor
• Resource Manager
Templates
• Resource Graph
• Management Groups
• Azure Blueprints
• RBAC
• Azure AD
• Azure AD B2B
• Azure AD B2C
• Directory Federation
• Directory Replication
• Azure Blueprint
• Azure Policy
• Resource Grouping &
Tagging
• Resource Manager
Templates
• Azure Advisor
• Azure DevOps
• Azure Site Recovery
• Azure Backup
• Azure Automation
Azure Monitor

29. Conversational chatbot for reservations
Service type Description Cost
Azure Active Directory B2C 50,000 authentication(s) $0.00
Azure Bot Service Free tier $0.00
Cognitive Services Language Understanding (LUIS) API: Free tier (Includes only
text as an input. 10,000 transactions are included for free per
month).
$0.00
Azure SQL Database Single Database, DTU purchase model, Basic tier, B: 5 DTUs, 2
GB included storage per DB, 1 Database(s) x 160 Hours, 5 GB
retention
$1.07
Azure Monitor 1,000,000 Standard API calls, 1 VM(s) monitored and 1 metric(s)
monitored per VM, 1 Log alert(s) at 5 minutes frequency, 1,000
emails, 1,000 push notifications, 100,000 web hooks, 100 SMS
in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1), 100 SMS
in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1), 100 SMS
in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1)
$1.60
Monthly Total $2.67
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30. Decentralized trust between banks on
Azure Service type Description Cost
Virtual Machine Scale Sets 2 A0 (1 vCPU(s), 0.75 GB RAM) x 730 Hours, Linux, Pay as you go $6.40
Key Vault 5 operations/month, 0 advanced operations/month, 0
renewals/month, 0 protected keys/month 0 advanced protected
keys/month
$0.03
IP Addresses 1 Dynamic IP Addresses, 0 Static IP Addresses, 0 Remaps $0.00
Storage Accounts Block Blob Storage, General Purpose V2, LRS Redundancy, Hot
Access Tier, 1 GB Capacity, 100,000 Write operations, 100,000 List
and Create Container Operations, 100,000 Read operations, 100,000
Archive High Priority Read, 1 Other operations. 1,000 GB Data
Retrieval, 1,000 GB Archive High Priority Retrieval, 1,000 GB Data
Write
$1.06
Load Balancer Basic Load Balancer is free of charge $0.00
Virtual Network 100 GB data transfer from East US region to East US region $2.00
Monthly Total $ 9.49
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31. An e-commerce front end on Azure
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Service type Description Cost
Storage Accounts Block Blob Storage, General Purpose V2, LRS Redundancy, Hot Access Tier,
3 GB Capacity, 100,000 Write operations, 100,000 List and Create Container
Operations, 100,000 Read operations, 100,000 Archive High Priority Read, 1
Other operations. 1,000 GB Data Retrieval, 1,000 GB Archive High Priority
Retrieval, 1,000 GB Data Write
$1.10
Storage Accounts Queue Storage, General Purpose V2, LRS Redundancy, 1 GB Capacity, 1,000
Queue Class 1 operations, 1,000 Queue Class 2 operations
$8.05
Content Delivery Network Zone 1: 5 GB, Zone 2: 0 GB, Zone 3: 0 GB, Zone 4: 0 GB, Zone 5: 0 GB, DSA:
0 GB
$0.41
App Service Free Tier; 1 F1 (0 Core(s), 1 GB RAM, 1 GB Storage) x 730 Hours; Windows
OS
$0.00
Azure Active Directory B2C 50,000 authentication(s) $0.00
Azure Functions 128 MB memory, 10 sec execution time, 100,000 executions/mo $0.00
Cognitive Services Text Analytics: Free size, 5,000 included transactions with 0 overages. $0.00
Azure Search Free tier $0.00
Azure Cache for Redis C0: Basic tier, 1 instance(s), 160 Hours $3.52
Azure SQL Database Single Database, DTU purchase model, Standard tier, S0: 10 DTUs, 250 GB
included storage per DB, 1 Database(s) x 160 Hours, 5 GB retention
$3.23
Azure Monitor 1,000,000 Standard API calls, 1 VM(s) monitored and 1 metric(s) monitored
per VM, 1 Log alert(s) at 5 minutes frequency, 1,000 emails, 1,000 push
notifications, 100,000 web hooks, 100 SMS in United States (+1), 100 SMS
in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United
States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1), 100 SMS in United States (+1)
$1.60
Monthly Total $17.90

32. Think About
Subscriptions
Network
Segregation
Training
Subscriptions
Dummy Data

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34. Thank you!
Sarah Lean
Cloud Advocate
@Techielass | Sarah.Lean@Microsoft.com |
www.techielass.com
Claudia Lopez
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
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