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Access tiers Azure Blob Storage supports four access tiers: Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive. Each represents a trade-off of availability and cost. There is no trade-off on the durability (probability of data loss), which is defined by the SKU and replication, not the access tier. The tiers are as follows: New blobs will default to…

Account types There are three possible storage account types for the Standard tier: StorageV2 (General- Purpose V2), Storage (General-Purpose V1), and BlobStorage. There are four possible storage account types for the Premium tier: StorageV2 (General-Purpose V2), Storage (General- Purpose V1), BlockBlobStorage, and FileStorage. Table 2-1 shows the features for each kind of account. Key points…

Skill 2.1: Configure access to storage An Azure storage account is a resource that you create that is used to store data objects such as blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. Data in an Azure storage account is durable and highly available, secure, massively scalable, and accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or…

Thought experiment In this thought experiment, apply what you have learned. You can find answers to thesequestions in the next section.You are responsible for creating and tracking resources in Azure for two business units within your organization: HR and Marketing. Your organization has an Enterprise Agreement (EA). Each business unit needs to deploy its own…

Chapter summary Here are some of the key takeaways from this chapter: variables/parameters/functions to create dependencies between resources.

Monitor and report spend While Azure Advisor and its cost recommendations provide one method for monitoring spend and unused resources, Azure has many other tools that can help you monitor the cost of your resources and report on that cost. There are several considerations that you must account for when reporting on the cost associated…

Configure cost center quotas One of the key factors in managing an Azure subscription is being able to plan for and drive organizational accountability for Azure spend. One of the best ways to drive accountability is to make sure that the consumers of Azure resources understand their cost, including current usage and forecasting future spend…

Configure cost management In Azure, there are several types of quotas that are applicable to subscriptions, including resource quotas and spending quotas. With Azure resource quotas (or limits), Azure adminis- trators can view the current consumption and usage of resources within an Azure subscription and understand how that consumption can be affected by Azure resource…

Configure management groups Management groups can also be used to apply Azure RBAC to a subscription. Using man- agement groups, you can apply governance consistently across subscriptions, including the application of common RBAC controls and the application of Azure Policy, as discussed later in this chapter. Within management groups, subscriptions can be organized in a…