What is cloudyn in Azure?

Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn is a software as a service (SaaS) cost management and monitoring tool for multi-cloud environments. In July 2017, Microsoft, which operates the Azure public cloud, acquired Cloudyn.

What is cloudyn?

Cloudyn is a multi-cloud business management solution that enables enterprises to make data-driven, business decisions regarding their cloud strategy and efficiency.

How do I use cloudyn?

To use Cloudyn, first you need to register your subscription to get the billing information shared with the Cloudyn portal. In the Azure Portal, select Cost Management + Billing, select Cost Management (if available), then Cloudyn and finally click the Go to Cloudyn button.

What is Azure cost management tool?

Cost Management uses Azure management groups, budgets, and recommendations to show clearly how your expenses are organized and how you might reduce costs. You can use the Azure portal or various APIs for export automation to integrate cost data with external systems and processes.

What is an Azure Management Group?

Management groups are containers that help you manage access, policy, and compliance across multiple subscriptions. Create these containers to build an effective and efficient hierarchy that can be used with Azure Policy and Azure Role Based Access Controls.

What is an Azure Service Bus?

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics (in a namespace). Service Bus is used to decouple applications and services from each other, providing the following benefits: Load-balancing work across competing workers.

What is availability set in Azure?

An availability set is a logical grouping of VMs that allows Azure to understand how your application is built to provide for redundancy and availability. We recommended that two or more VMs are created within an availability set to provide for a highly available application and to meet the 99.95% Azure SLA.

Which Azure support plans offer 24×7 access to Microsoft engineers via telephone and email?

The developer plan is for trial and non-production environments and provides technical support during normal business hours. The response time from Microsoft for this plan is within eight hours. The Standard plan provides 24/7 access to support engineers by phone or email for your production workloads.

Is Azure cost management free?

Azure Cost Management is available for free to all customers and partners to manage their Azure spend. Additional premium capabilities are also available at no cost through June 2018 when they will become paid features. Customers and partners will pay 1% of managed cloud spend for AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

How do I enable cost management in Azure?

To enable an option in the EA portal: Sign in to the EA portal at https://ea.azure.com with an enterprise administrator account. Select Manage in the left pane. For the cost management scopes that you want to provide access to, enable the charge option to DA view charges and/or AO view charges.

What is Azure hierarchy?

Azure arranges management groups in a single hierarchy. You define this hierarchy in your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant to align with your organization’s structure and needs. The top level is called the root management group. You can define up to six levels of management groups in your hierarchy.

Can Azure management groups be nested?

We can nest Azure Management Groups up to six levels deep for efficient management of resources.