Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud - How Azure Pricing Works

The major cloud providers - such as Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure,
and Google's GCP - each offer dozens of separate services. These services can be quite useful, but understanding just how much they cost can be difficult. In this talk, we will focus on Microsoft Azure, getting an understanding of how pricing works for different services.

You will learn:

• The trickier aspects of the Azure pricing calculator
• Situations where alternative configurations can provide similar levels of service at wildly different prices
• How to keep your cloud bill as low as possible

Kevin Feasel is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Engineering Manager of the Predictive Analytics team at ChannelAdvisor, where he specializes in T-SQL and R development, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand.