Azure Tutorials Series - Azure Account| Subscription| Support and Billing

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We now know about different licensing and Purchasing Azure could provide. We will go through Azure accounts, subscriptions, support and billing provided by Microsoft.

Firstly, we you want to use these services, you got to have a phone number, credit card, Microsoft or GitHub account.

Azure Subscription

  • When you create any resource, you have to tag a subscription to it so that you get billed for the resources used in that subscription.
  • You can create multiple subscription and each subscription can have its own billing associated with it
  • Few subscription limits are there for Azure such as 
    • Max number of Express Route circuits per subscription is 100
Azure Billing
  • Azure charges you Monthly for the services you use
  • It provides  great features to customise your billing(invoices). Moreover, you can opt for multiple bills, for example monthly bills for different departments, teams and so on.
  • Billing structure consists of 
    • Billing Account
    • Billing profile
    • Invoice section
    • Azure subscription
  • Billing Zone
    • Billing zones are geographical grouping of Azure regions for billing.
Azure Support
  • Categorised into
    • Free
      • Basic support
      • Community Support
    • Paid
      • Developer
      • Standard
      • Professional Direct
    • Azure premier support
      • features are 
        • faster response time
        • Architecture/ code review
        • online support
Free Support includes online documentation, community support and youtube channels. For example - Azure Friday, Microsoft Mechanics. Also includes Azure QuickStart centre - to guide on using Azure portal. 

Talking about community support, we have Azure Knowledge centre, Microsoft Tech community, Stack overflow, Server Fault, Azure Feedback forums and Twitter :)

Paid services includes,
  •     Developer
    •  For non-critical work loads
    • 1 day business response
  • Standard
    • For production workloads
    • 1 hour response for critical cases
  • Professional Direct
    • Business critical workloads
    • 1 hour response + priority tracking of critical cases
    • Access to a pool of Technical experts
That is all from the high level to learn about Azure subscription, billing, Azure support. Happy Learning.

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