Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure

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James Bannan

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01.Course Overview

0101.Course Overview.mp4

02:00

02.Introducing Microsoft Azure Cost Management

0201.Course Introduction and Context.mp4

02:15

0202.Principles of Consumption Optimization.mp4

09:01

0203.Introducing Woodgrove Bank.mp4

05:08

0204.Azure Billing, Cost Management, and APIs.mp4

08:20

03.Optimizing Storage Costs

0301.Understanding Business Data.mp4

03:31

0302.Business Data Types and Use Cases.mp4

04:18

0303.Understanding Azure Storage Services.mp4

06:02

0304.Big Data and Azure Data Lake.mp4

03:42

0305.Woodgrove Bank Storage Business Requirements.mp4

03:41

0306.Implementing Blob Tiering and Geo-redundancy.mp4

03:54

0307.Migrating Data to Azure Data Lake Store.mp4

02:27

0308.Creating a Custom Azure Cost Management Dashboard for Storage.mp4

02:54

04.Optimizing Compute Costs

0401.Infrastructure-as-a-Service Use Cases and Scenarios.mp4

02:41

0402.Choosing the Right Azure Compute Services.mp4

07:46

0403.Optimizing Azure Compute.mp4

04:31

0404.Optimizing with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.mp4

03:24

0405.Right-sizing Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor.mp4

08:06

0406.Implementing Performance-driven Autoscaling.mp4

03:02

0407.Implementing Azure DevTest Labs.mp4

04:24

05.Optimizing Network Costs

0501.Core Microsoft Azure Networking Services.mp4

04:15

0502.Understanding Azure Networking Cost Drivers.mp4

05:48

0503.Considerations for Optimizing Connectivity.mp4

07:15

0504.Woodgrove Bank Networking Business Requirements.mp4

02:00

0505.Implementing Azure Network Watcher and Traffic Analytics.mp4

04:32

0506.Creating a Custom Azure Cost Management Dashboard for Networking.mp4

02:40

06.Optimizing App Service Costs

0601.Microsoft Azure App Services Overview.mp4

05:05

0602.Understanding and Optimizing App Service Scaling.mp4

06:30

0603.Application Architecture Considerations and Going Serverless on Azure.mp4

06:33

0604.Monitoring App Services and Woodgrove Bank App Services Business Requirements.mp4

04:35

0605.Configure App Service Autoscaling with Azure Monitor.mp4

03:31

0606.Configure and Test App Service Monitoring with Application Insights.mp4

04:47

07.Optimizing Identity Costs

0701.Azure Identity Overview and Licensing.mp4

05:14

0702.Optimizing Azure Identity Security.mp4

04:33

0703.Connecting with External Users and Identity Federation.mp4

06:50

0704.Woodgrove Bank Implementing and Enabling Multi-factor Authentication.mp4

08:05

Description

A Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect needs to be able to strike the balance between consumption and performance, while focusing on the core business stakeholders, and those are the skills you will learn in this course.

What You'll Learn?

In this course, Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure, you’ll learn the principal cost drivers of core Microsoft Azure technologies, what your options are to optimize them, and how align your solutions with stakeholder business requirements. First, you’ll focus on the guiding principles of consumption optimization. Next, you’ll work on extracting key information from business stakeholders which will inform your technical solutions. Finally, you’ll delve deep into core Microsoft Azure technologies and understand what the options and considerations are for optimization, while constantly focusing on monitoring and visibility and using that information to make informed decisions. When you’ve completed this course, you'll have gained the knowledge of how to listen to and understand business stakeholders and translate their needs into robust technical solutions which strike the right balance between consumption and performance.

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James Bannan

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James Bannan is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years and has worked in a variety of roles, from helpdesk to systems administration and now as a consultant. He is a published author, having written many articles for both print and online publications as well as a book on System Center Configuration Manager. James is an experienced public speaker and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for eight years in a row. He has worked in all aspects of Microsoft technology from end-user computing to on-premises datacenters, but now spends all his time working with Microsoft Azure, deploying and automating solutions for customers across a wide range of industries from government and retail to higher education. When not focusing on IT, James enjoys music and reading, spending as much time as possible with his wife and two daughters and taking the family dog Lexi to the beach.

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