hands-on lab

Azure Cost Optimization with Spot VMs

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 2
On average, students complete this lab in25m
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Description

Understanding the operating costs of any infrastructure is important. The cloud offers unique challenges as there are many options, for example, to provide compute. This may relate to how it is contractually paid, the different sizes and hardware that is suited to a specific use case, or may be the ever-evolving nature of the cloud with new offerings constantly being unveiled.

Cost optimization, an ongoing process, allows you to evaluate your current design to propose and implement a more cost-efficient solution. During this lab, you will explore such a case.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

  • Evaluate current VM infrastructure
  • Calculate costs
  • Evaluate and compare pricing options
  • Deploy a cost-optimized solution

Intended audience

  • Cloud Developers
  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Azure Fundamentals
  • Creating an Azure Virtual Machine

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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Lab steps

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  1. Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
  2. Evaluating Current Infrastructure
  3. Reviewing Different Cost Options for Azure Resources
  4. Implementing Cost Optimizations with Azure Spot VMs