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Kushan Perera
about.kushanperera.com

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Kushan Lahiru Perera
Principle Consultant at
Independent Consultant – Cloud and Office 365
Passionate about:
Enterprise Collaboration - O365/ SharePoint
Cloud Services - Microsoft Azure & GCP
Client Side Frameworks
Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

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Agenda
1. Motivations to cloud?
2. Introduction to optimization
3. Techniques cloud cost optimization
Demos:
• Tagging
• Azure Runbooks
• Azure cost calculator

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What is CLOUD (revisit)?
Pay-as-You-Go Zero
capital ($)
to start
Outsourced
services – No
unpredictable
costs

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Why Optimize?
Utility
Compute and Storage
are a utility
so
‘turning
off’ should be natural
Efficiency
Efficiency
allows
more to be done
within a given budget
Architecture
Cost awareness
drives todays
architectural decisions

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What you will get (benefits)?
Reduced
Risk
Cost/ Time
Efficiency
Availability

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Scenario:
Usage of server within a business day.

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad

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Capacity of 1 Server
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Hour of day
ServerLoad

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Traditional capacity required
Capacity of 1 Server
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Hour of day
ServerLoad

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Traditional capacity required
Capacity of 1 Server
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours

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Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours
Capacity of 1 Server
1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours

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Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1 Server for 8 hours
Capacity of 1 Server
1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours 1 Server for 8 hours

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Capacity of 1 Server
Traditional capacity required
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour of day
ServerLoad
1/3rd
Saving

15.
Azure RIs (Reserved VM Instances)
Reservation of VMs in advance and get
discounts
• Predictive budgets
• One or three year terms
• Prioritized compute
• Flexible cancel or exchange
• Easy purchase

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Naming and Tagging
Make accountable and transparent
• Resource naming convention
<company> <department> <productline> <environment>
Eg. softhonic services business prod
• Tagging
• Name value pairs assigned to resources or resource groups
• Each resource could have up to 15 tags

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Scale Right
Buy only what you need
Workload Workload Workload

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Scale Right… cont
Buy only what you need
• Auto scale
• Know your capacity
• Audit
• Continuous monitor

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Decommission & Automate
Pay only when you need
• Auto shutdown
• Logic apps
• Web Jobs
• Automation – Runbooks
• Azure Dev Test Labs
• Windows Scheduler Tasks
• Etc.
• Deallocate unused resources
• Audit with PowerShell for unattached disks and resources
• $  0

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Azure Automation - Runblocks
https://github.com/ratchetnclank/Invoke-
Autoshutdown/blob/master/Invoke-Autoshutdown.ps1

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Choose right
Pay only when you need
• Price deviates from resource location
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations
• Find best service for your requirement
Go server-less when its POSSIBLE
No maintenance
No License
Less knowledge curve

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aka.ms/azurecalculator

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Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL)
Use what you have
• Research licenses from 3rd party
• Purchase directly
• If you have Visual Studio enterprise – you have licenses

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Educate end-users
Use what you have
• If you scheduled to shutdown VMs at 6.00 PM
• User on half day and leaves around 2.00 PM
• If user shutdown at 2.00 PM, you save 4 hour compute

25.
Pay as you go
but
keep eye on
distance you go.

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Inboxme@kushanperera.com
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