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Lessons in this course (14)

13. Cost management and governance

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  • Pricing levers: right-size SKUs, autoscale, reserved instances / savings plans (1 or 3 years), spot VMs, serverless/scale-to-zero, dev/test pricing, auto-shutdown of dev VMs, storage tiers and lifecycle rules, delete orphaned resources (disks, public IPs).
  • Azure Cost Management budgets and alerts, tags for chargeback, Azure Advisor recommendations, Pricing Calculator and TCO calculator.
  • Governance: Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC least privilege, resource locks, landing zones (Cloud Adoption Framework).