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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

You're reading from Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073301

Pages 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Steve Miles

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

3. Chapter 2: Benefits of Cloud Computing

4. Section 2: Core Azure Services

5. Chapter 3: Core Azure Architectural Components

6. Chapter 4: Core Azure Resources

7. Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools

8. Chapter 5: Core Azure Solutions

9. Chapter 6: Azure Management Tools

10. Section 4: Security

11. Chapter 7: Azure Security

12. Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance

13. Chapter 8: Azure Identity Services

14. Chapter 9: Azure Governance

15. Chapter 10: Azure Privacy and Compliance

16. Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements

17. Chapter 11: Azure Cost Planning and Management

18. Chapter 12: Azure Service-Level Agreements

19. Chapter 13: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

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TCO calculator

The TCO calculator can be accessed as a browser-based tool that can estimate cost savings by moving workloads to Azure. From here, you can generate a report that compares the costs of workloads running in on-premises environments with those running in Azure.

The TCO calculator allows you to enter details for the on-premises workloads. It will then provide some assumptions based on industry average operational costs, including data center facility costs, electricity, labor, hardware, software, and networking costs. It then provides potential costs savings by moving those workloads to Azure. These reports can be saved, downloaded, or shared.

The TCO calculator is shown in the following screenshot and can be accessed from https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/tco/calculator:

Figure 11.3 – TCO calculator

In this section, we looked at the TCO calculator. In the next section, we will cover some hands-on exercises to help you build on the...

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Authors (1)

Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.

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