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Improve cloud visibility and cost in Microsoft Azure
The document outlines strategies for improving visibility and cost management in Microsoft Azure through effective governance practices. It discusses the journey to the cloud, lessons learned, and tools utilized for resource management and cost control. Key recommendations include implementing tagging policies, regular cost trend verification, and facilitating ownership mapping to enhance cloud governance.
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- 1. Improve visibility andcost in Microsoft Azure
- 2. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Stephane Lapointe @s_lapointe Microsoft AzureMVP Cloud Solutions Architect
- 3. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Agenda • Typicalcloud journey • What is Governance? • Our journey to the cloud • Visibility • Cost • Lessons learned
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- 5. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Traditional Approach toControl Block Dev/Ops from directly accessing the cloud (portal/api/cli) to attain control Developers Operations Cloud Engineers responsible for Cloud environment
- 6. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Modern Approach toControl Cloud-native governance -> removing barriers to compliance and enabling velocity Cloud Engineers Developers Operations Management Groups Templates RBAC Blueprints Policies Policy Cost Management
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- 11. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Our journey tothe cloud – • 2013-14 - Clients dev/staging env • 2015 - Clients prod env • 2016 - Cloud first 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 $ CAD/month from 60$ to 34K$
- 12. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure It grew organically, fast •Unable to explain some increases • Is it still in use? • Who owns what?
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- 14. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure What we did/tried •Ownership mapping • Deprecated resources inventory • New subscription model
- 15. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure What we did/tried •Tags • Naming convention • Lot of cost management tools • Azure Policy • Azure Resource Graph
- 16. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Our subscription model • 2subs per projects/products • Regular offer for production • Enterprise Dev/Test offer for non-production Using PAYG ? Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test offer
- 17. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Tags Tagging policy isessential in a good governance plan, ours is: • Mandatory tags • Required at resource group • Forced inheritance on child resources
- 18. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure provide efficient andperformant resource exploration ability to query at scale across a given set of subscriptio ns
- 19. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Features • Blazing fast •Visibility across your cloud resources • Powerful querying to gain deeper insights • Rich aggregation and parsing of granular properties • Tracking of changes made to resource properties (preview) • Support Azure Delegated Resource Management (Azure Lighthouse) AzureResour ce Graph
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- 23. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Tools we used •All the free ones! • Azure Consumption Insights in Power BI • ShareGate Overcast • Azure Cost Management
- 24. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Bad reasons for increases •Oversized resources • Misconfiguration • Forgotten resources • Human error
- 25. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Good reasons for increases •Migration to the cloud • Increased customer demand • New projet / product
- 26. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure What to payspecial attention to • Slow, constant increases • Spikes • Too many regions
- 27. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Problems detected because ofcost Software bugs • Storage bandwidth • Automated scaling
- 28. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Problems detected because ofcost Architecture problems • Big scale-up • Multiple scale-up
- 29. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Problems detected because ofcost Misconfiguration • Database pools • Premium disk snapshots • Application Insights without cap / sampling
- 30. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure What we learned •Assign resources/cost verifications responsibilities • Perform regular cost trends verification • Free software plumbing has a cost
- 31. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure What we learned •Document standards & guidelines • Increase employee knowledge • Tagging is essential • Prioritize tagging over naming convention
- 32. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Resources • Getting startedwith Azure Resource Graph webinar • Inherit a tag from the resource group policy • Azure Governance documentation • Azure Resource Graph portal dashboard samples
- 33. ImprovevisibilityandcostinMicrosoftAzure Stephane Lapointe Microsoft Azure MVP CloudSolutions Architect Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out