A deeper dive on how costs work

Every Azure resource is rent plus meters. In Part 2 of the Azure Cost Expert Series, Turbo360 CTO Michael Stephenson is joined again by Frank Contrepois, independent FinOps voice and co-host of The FinOps Guys podcast, to go one level below the invoice and show what is actually driving your Azure bill.

In Part 1 they covered the billing hierarchy, agreement types and how to trust your cost numbers. This time Frank takes the newcomer's seat and asks the questions anyone new to Azure pricing would ask. Michael answers them live in the Azure portal and in Turbo360: what a meter is, why a virtual machine's cost is never just the virtual machine, how storage, networking and App Service are charged, and when the meters are worth your attention. They close with the lever that beats every discount for non-production workloads: turning things off.

If you have found the biggest service on your Azure bill and now need to explain why it moves, this one is for you.

Topics covered: Azure meters and meter categories, VM compute, licence and data transfer charges, Azure Hybrid Benefit, disks, public IPs and Log Analytics as the hidden costs of a VM, resource groups, storage redundancy, access tiers and lifecycle rules, networking charges, the App Service plan attribution problem, Cost Driver Analysis in Turbo360 Cost Analyzer, and scheduling VMs off.

Listen to all episodes at - https://turbo360.com/podcast/category/azure-cost-expert-series

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