Updates and news around Azure for the month of March 2018 plus a deep dive into Azure pricing

1. Need to Know Azure Webinar
March 2018
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7. Agenda
- Azure Update
- Azure Pricing
- Q & A

9. News
• Azure File snapshot now available
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-files-
share-snapshot/
• Azure private DNS zones now in preview
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-dns-private-zones-now-available-in-public-
preview/
• Azure AD expiration policy for Office 365 Groups bow available
• https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/03/14/azure-ad-expiration-policy-for-
office-365-groups-is-generally-available/
• New data centers in Europe and Middle East
• https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/03/14/microsoft-expands-cloud-services-in-europe-and-
into-middle-east-to-meet-growing-customer-demand/
• VM Serial console access
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/virtual-machine-serial-console-access/

10. Azure Pricing

11. Pricing
Calculator
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

12. DEMO

13. Take aways
• Azure is generally a consumption based pricing model, you
pay for what you use
• IaaS services are generally billed by time while PaaS services
are billed via interaction
• The Azure pricing calculator provides a indicative pricing
guide only
• Azure pricing is generally per item i.e. you need to figure in
all the individual components

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