Apply cost optimization guidance in your architecture to sustain and improve your return on investment (ROI).
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the five principles of the Cost Optimization pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Build a team mindset that keeps an eye on budgets, spending, and tracking costs.
- Focus your spending on what really matters to get the best value.
- Make the most of your tools, systems, and processes.
- Boost efficiency without having to start from scratch or cut corners.
- Keep adjusting your investments as your needs grow or change.
Learn how to use cost analysis to understand how your costs accrue each month.
In this module, you will:
- Set up your organization for success when using Cost Management.
- Analyze costs on a subscription using cost analysis.
- Create your first Azure budget based on your analysis.
Learn how to save money by taking advantage of Azure Reserved Instances.
In this module, you learn how to:
- Determine the usefulness of reserved instances.
- Choose the right reserved instance, buy one, and then manage it.
- Monitor and improve your reservations.
- Perform basic reservation reporting.
Use Power BI to understand where your money is being spent in Azure so you can help your organization to optimize its costs.
In this module, you'll learn how to:
- Analyze your costs using Cost Management reporting in the Power BI app.
- Increase your organization's use of hybrid benefits.
- Increase your savings by optimizing your organization's Reserved Instance coverage.
- Enable custom report creation within your team through the Cost Management data connector for Power BI Desktop to better understand your spending.
Learn how to reconcile your bill and analyze costs across your customers and resources by using Microsoft Cost Management as a partner.
In this module, you'll learn how to:
- Understand Microsoft Cost Management scopes.
- Reconcile your bill.
- Determine which resources receive partner earned credit.
- Enable Microsoft Cost Management for customers.
- Set cost thresholds.
Purchase Azure savings plan for compute helps customers minimize their operational costs.
After you complete this module, you can:
- Evaluate, manage, and optimize the Purchase Azure savings plan for compute.

Syllabus

Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization
- Introduction
- Develop cost-management discipline
- Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
- Design for usage optimization
- Design for rate optimization
- Monitor and optimize over time
- Summary
Introduction to analyzing costs and creating budgets with Microsoft Cost Management
- Introduction
- Cost management principles
- Evaluate your costs using cost analysis
- Exercise - Determine your most expensive resource and see trends
- Build budgets and alerts
- Exercise - Create your first budget
- Summary
Save money with Azure Reserved Instances
- Introduction
- Determine what to purchase
- Make a purchase
- View and manage reservations
- View reservation transactions
- Monitor and optimize reservation use
- Analyze and report after reservation purchase
- Module assessment
- Summary
Optimize Azure costs with data analysis in Power BI
- Introduction
- Analyze costs in the Microsoft Cost Management Power BI app to optimize costs
- Manage hybrid benefits to reduce the licensing cost of Azure VMs
- Optimize your Azure reservation use to save money
- Import data into Power BI Desktop with the Cost Management data connector to better understand your Azure spending
- Module assessment
- Summary
Configure and manage costs as a Microsoft partner by using Microsoft Cost Management
- Introduction
- Understand cost management scopes
- Reconcile your bill
- Take advantage of earned credits
- Enable cost management for customers
- Set cost thresholds
- Module assessment
- Summary
Purchase Azure savings plan for compute
- Introduction
- What is Azure savings plan for compute?
- Optimize the benefits of Azure savings plan for compute
- Prepare for purchasing Azure savings plan for compute
- Purchase Azure savings plan for compute
- Manage and monitor Azure savings plan for compute
- Module assessment
- Summary