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Published inOct 2021
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ISBN-139781801078603
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Richard Young
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Richard Young

Richard Young has been working in IT for over 35 years and is currently a principal consultant in the professional services division of Lenovo Global Technologies, covering EMEA. He works closely with customers to assist them in their journey to the cloud with a focus on hybrid cloud, especially focused on Microsoft Azure. His role covers both the strategy and deployment of hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI. He holds both MCSE and MCSA certifications for Azure. He holds the MCPD certification for .NET development for the cloud, from back when he was a developer. He has been involved in multiple deployments of Azure Stack Hub throughout Europe over the last few years. He is a husband, father, and grandfather.
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Understanding Azure Stack Hub licensing models

There are two main components of the Azure Stack Hub software:

  • Cloud infrastructure: Facilitates the system, including the portal
  • Services: Customer workloads running on the system

You will only be billed for the services that are running on the Azure Stack Hub instance. Examples of billed services are virtual machines that have been deployed from the Azure Stack Hub marketplace and Azure services such as Azure App Service.

There are two ways in which the services can be licensed:

  • Pay-as-you-use (consumption-based model)
  • Capacity model

We will cover each of these different licensing models, starting with the pay-as-you-use consumption model.

Pay-as-you-use

The pay-as-you-use model has no upfront fees attributed to it, which means that you will only pay when you actively use a service. This model offers a continuous transaction experience that is identical to Azure's. The usage of every...

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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078603

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Richard Young

Richard Young has been working in IT for over 35 years and is currently a principal consultant in the professional services division of Lenovo Global Technologies, covering EMEA. He works closely with customers to assist them in their journey to the cloud with a focus on hybrid cloud, especially focused on Microsoft Azure. His role covers both the strategy and deployment of hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI. He holds both MCSE and MCSA certifications for Azure. He holds the MCPD certification for .NET development for the cloud, from back when he was a developer. He has been involved in multiple deployments of Azure Stack Hub throughout Europe over the last few years. He is a husband, father, and grandfather.
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