What is the easiest way to get an Azure Subscription
Signing up for Azure as this creates a subscription for you
How can you purchase Azure
From MS direct or representative
How do you pay for Azure
You pay for what you use via Monthly Invoice
What organisation options are there for your monthly invoice
Organise on you budget and cost tracking needs
What is an Azure Subscription
A logical container to provision azure resources, holds details of things such as VMs, databases and more
When you create a resource you need to identify the subscription it belongs to.
Are there any subscription limits
There are some hard limits (e.g. Max of 10 express routes in one subscription)
Why might you create additional subscriptions
Additional subscriptions can be created to seperate out
- Environments - Test, Dev, Security Compliance
- Org Structures - Limiting certain teams to lower cost resources
- Billing - To split out cost of Production and Dev
Multiple Subscriptions can be organized into invoice sections, with each invoice section being a
Line item
- Multiple invoices can be setup within the same billing account, what do you need to create to achieve this?
You need to create additional billing profiles.
Each profile has it’s own invoice and payment method
What are some of the free support options in Azure
- Online Docs
- Community Support
- Azure Capabilities YT channel
- Billing and Subscription MGMT support
- Azure Guided Quickstart (QuickStart Center)
- Azure Service Health - Insights into issues related toy your Azure services
- Azure Advisor - Personalised advice on Cost + Performance Optimization
What types of Azure Support Plans are there
Reactive and Proactive
Developer
Standard
Pro-Direct
What are the vitals of the developer support plan
- Developer - Non Critical, 1 Day Response, Reactive
What are the vitals of the standard support plan
- Standard - Production workload, 1 hours for critical cases, reactive
What are the vitals of the Professional Direct Support plan
Pro-Direct - Business Critical, 1 hour + Critical Tracking, Access to technical experts.
What Community support is available for Azure
Community Support
- Azure Knowledge Centre
- MS Tech Community
- StackOverflow
- ServerFault
- Azure Feedback Forums
- Twitter @AzureSupport
