Cloud solutions could not be best solution if it is not chosen. One factor businesses deviates from cloud solutions is unawareness of getting best out of cloud solutions with increasing efficiency. This presentation addresses gaps between discussion had at the global azure bootcamp New Jersey.

1. Kushan Perera
about.kushanperera.com

2. Kushan Lahiru Perera
Principle Consultant at
Independent Consultant – Cloud and Office 365
Passionate about:
Enterprise Collaboration - O365/ SharePoint
Cloud Services - Microsoft Azure & GCP
Client Side Frameworks
Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

3. Agenda
1. Motivations to cloud?
2. Introduction to optimization
3. Techniques cloud cost optimization
Demos:
• Tagging
• Azure Runbooks
• Azure cost calculator

4. What is CLOUD (revisit)?
Pay-as-You-Go Zero
capital ($)
to start
Outsourced
services – No
unpredictable
costs

5. Why Optimize?
Utility
Compute and Storage
are a utility
so
‘turning
off’ should be natural
Efficiency
Efficiency
allows
more to be done
within a given budget
Architecture
Cost awareness
drives todays
architectural decisions

6. What you will get (benefits)?
Reduced
Risk
Cost/ Time
Efficiency
Availability

7. Scenario:
Usage of server within a business day.

8. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad

9. Capacity of 1 Server
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Hour of day
ServerLoad

10. Traditional capacity required
Capacity of 1 Server
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Hour of day
ServerLoad

11. Traditional capacity required
Capacity of 1 Server
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Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours

12. Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours
Capacity of 1 Server
1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours

13. Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours
Capacity of 1 Server
1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours

14. Capacity of 1 Server
Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1/3rd
Saving

15. Azure RIs (Reserved VM Instances)
Reservation of VMs in advance and get
discounts
• Predictive budgets
• One or three year terms
• Prioritized compute
• Flexible cancel or exchange
• Easy purchase

16. Naming and Tagging
Make accountable and transparent
• Resource naming convention
<company> <department> <productline> <environment>
Eg. softhonic services business prod
• Tagging
• Name value pairs assigned to resources or resource groups
• Each resource could have up to 15 tags

18. Scale Right
Buy only what you need
Workload Workload Workload

19. Scale Right… cont
Buy only what you need
• Auto scale
• Know your capacity
• Audit
• Continuous monitor

20. Decommission & Automate
Pay only when you need
• Auto shutdown
• Logic apps
• Web Jobs
• Automation – Runbooks
• Azure Dev Test Labs
• Windows Scheduler Tasks
• Etc.
• Deallocate unused resources
• Audit with PowerShell for unattached disks and resources
• $  0

21. Azure Automation - Runblocks
https://github.com/ratchetnclank/Invoke-
Autoshutdown/blob/master/Invoke-Autoshutdown.ps1

22. Choose right
Pay only when you need
• Price deviates from resource location
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations
• Find best service for your requirement
Go server-less when its POSSIBLE
No maintenance
No License
Less knowledge curve

23. aka.ms/azurecalculator

24. Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL)
Use what you have
• Research licenses from 3rd party
• Purchase directly
• If you have Visual Studio enterprise – you have licenses

25. Educate end-users
Use what you have
• If you scheduled to shutdown VMs at 6.00 PM
• User on half day and leaves around 2.00 PM
• If user shutdown at 2.00 PM, you save 4 hour compute

26. Pay as you go
but
keep eye on
distance you go.

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