Reservations or Committed Use Discounts
Commit for 1 year or 3 year plans for cost reduction
- Like advanced hotel booking
- Secures space at lower rates
- Ensures availability on arrival
- Avoids premium on-the-spot rates
Use case:
- consistent resource usage / workloads with predictable resource needs
- long-term projects
How reservation works in Azure:
- Save up to 72% off pay-as-you-goPay as you go pricing model* No upfront costs and pay for what you use * Scale resources as needed for cost optimization Status: #idea Tags: az-900, azure, cloud, cloud-billing, ccp, aws, gcp, google-cloud-engineer References
How reservation/committed use discounts works in GCP:
- Up to 70% discount based on machine type and GPUs
- Applicable for instances created by Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute EngineGoogle Compute EngineGCP service used to provision and manage virtual machines * Create and manage lifecycle of Virtual Machine (VM) instances * Associated with a project Load balancing* and *auto scaling* for multiple VM instances Attach storage** (& network storage) to your VM instances * Manage network connectivity and configuration for your VM instances Setup Billing Live Migration & Availability Policy Scenarios Similar to AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines Status: #idea Tags: gcp, google-cloud-engineer,
- RESTRICTION: Does NOT apply to VMs created by Google App Engine flexible and Google Dataflow
How reservation works in AWS:
- AWS EC2 Reserved Instances
Status: #idea
Tags: gcp, google-cloud-engineerGoogle Associate Cloud Engineer Noteswhy use cloud?
https://www.in28minutes.com/gcp-bookshelf
https://www.in28minutes.com/downloads/09-google-certified-associate-cloud-engineer/CoursePresentation-GoogleCertifiedAssociateCloudEngineer.pdf
how do projects work in gcp?
cloud projects and accounts
Resource Hierarchy
Organization Level
Folder Level
Project Level
IAM
who
* single account
* group
can do what (rules)
* basic
* predefined
* custom
scope
observability monitoring
billing account
load balancing
Regions and Zones, cloud, cloud-billingBilling and Cost Planning in CloudMost providers:
* Pay as you go pricing model
* Reservations or Committed Use Discounts
* Spot Instances
* Preemtible Instances
How billing works in GCP:
* Sustained use discounts
* Google Compute Engine - Billing
How billing and planning costs works in Azure:
* Azure Free Account
* Azure Hybrid Benefit
* Azure Pricing Calculator
* Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
* Azure Cost Management Dashboard
* Azure Advisor
Status: #idea
Tags: cloud
References, az-900Microsoft Azure Fundamentals NotesIdentity and Access Management
Compute
Storage
Data Processing
Security and Compliance
Data Protection and Identity
Billing and Cost Planning
Resource Monitoring and Management
Integration and Migration
Integration and Migration to Azure
Security and Compliance in Azure
Networking
Digital highway connecting different resources whether on-premises or on Azure platform
* Content Delivery Network
* Virtual Network Manager
* VPN Gateway
Databases
Store structured and semi-structured, azure