Optimizing Azure Subscription 1 for Your Organization

Let's dive into optimizing Azure Subscription 1 for your organization. This involves setting the correct pricing tier for your subscription, which can be either Pay-As-You-Go or Enterprise Agreement.

Having the right pricing tier in place will help you avoid overpaying for resources you don't need. In Azure Subscription 1, the Enterprise Agreement pricing tier is more cost-effective for large-scale deployments.

To ensure secure access to your Azure Subscription 1, you'll need to set up Azure Active Directory (AAD) and assign the correct permissions. This will allow you to manage users, groups, and applications securely.

Resource management is a crucial aspect of Azure subscriptions. You can manage your Azure resources and subscription through the portal, which is built on Silverlight. This allows you to assign "Co-Administrators" to the same subscription, enabling multiple developers to work with the same project.

To manage your subscription, you can use the Service Management APIs, which are REST-based application programming interfaces. These APIs perform all operations and management of your subscription, including hosted services and other components.

You can also create resource groups to facilitate logical and billing separations between Azure technical resources. This allows you to compile billing reports for multiple resource groups into a single business unit/invoice, making it easier to control at the subscription level.

Here are some key considerations when scaling your subscriptions:

Additionally, you can categorize subscriptions based on workload separation, application category, business unit, or geographic region. This allows you to manage your subscriptions more effectively and align them with your business needs.

The pay-as-you-go approach is a cost-effective option for Azure pricing, making it the most popular choice, especially for customers and small enterprises with limited budgets.

This pricing model allows you to access enterprise-level capabilities for brief periods at inexpensive prices.

You can manage your expenses by reducing resource utilization, which is a key benefit of the pay-as-you-go approach.

By only paying for what you use, you can avoid unnecessary costs and stay within your budget.

The pay-as-you-go approach is a flexible option that can help you plan and create subscriptions for Azure.

To scale your Azure environment, you can create multiple subscriptions to overcome subscription-level constraints.

You can generate more than one subscription based on the structure of your business, but consider the costs of data entry and exit between subscriptions.

Organizational goals, such as administration, relocation, management, innovation, and protection, should also be taken into account before scaling your subscriptions.

You can manage Azure resources and move them across subscriptions based on where they belong best.

Workload separation is another key consideration, where you can separate subscriptions based on operational and non-operational management groups in line with your workload division plan.

Subscription segmentation can also be done based on application categories, such as access restrictions, business requirements, data protection requirements, and compliance requirements.

Business units, such as company units or profitability, can also be used to categorize subscriptions.

Geographic regions can also be used to classify subscriptions and customers, especially if your business has operations worldwide.

To make billing and management easier, you can use resource groups to create logical and billing separations between Azure technical resources.

Resource groups can be used to bill databases separately, depending on the Azure services required.

Here are some key considerations for subscription scaling:

When designing your organization, it's essential to consider how subscriptions will fit into the bigger picture. Subscriptions serve as boundaries for Azure Policy assignments, which can help you achieve compliance with regulations like PCI.

You can use subscriptions to isolate concerns and provide a management boundary for governance. This means you can clearly separate different aspects of your organization, making it easier to manage and maintain.

Subscriptions also serve as a scale unit, allowing component workloads to scale within platform subscription limits. Be sure to consider subscription resource limits as you design your workloads.

Here are some key considerations to keep in mind:

Organizational goals, such as administration, relocation, management, invention, and protection, should also be taken into account when designing your organization. This will help you make informed decisions about how to structure your subscriptions and resources.

By considering these factors, you can create a well-designed organization that meets the needs of your business and helps you achieve your goals.

As you set up your Azure subscription, it's essential to consider quotas and capacity to ensure your workloads run smoothly. Azure regions have finite resources, so track available capacity and SKUs.

You should consider limits and quotas within the Azure platform for each service your workloads require. This includes thinking about the availability of required SKUs within your chosen Azure regions, as new features might only be available in certain areas.

Subscription quotas aren't capacity guarantees and are applied on a per-region basis. For virtual machine capacity reservations, check out On-demand capacity reservation.

To manage capacity effectively, use subscriptions as scale units and scale out resources and subscriptions as needed. This way, your workload can use the required resources without hitting subscription limits.

Consider using capacity reservations to manage capacity in specific regions. This ensures your workload has the required capacity for high-demand resources.

It's also crucial to establish a dashboard with custom views to monitor used capacity levels and set up alerts if capacity approaches critical levels, such as 90% CPU usage.

You can cancel your Azure subscription in the Azure portal, but be aware that if you have a support plan associated with the subscription, it will appear in the cancellation process.

Navigate to the Cost management + Billing Overview page, select the support plan you want to cancel, and then select Cancel to cancel your support plan. A subscription owner can also navigate directly to the Subscriptions page and start the cancellation process from there.

If you have any Azure resources associated with the subscription, they will be shown in the cancellation process. If you have a support plan and no other subscriptions use it, you can select Turn off auto-renew after canceling the subscription.

After you cancel your subscription, billing is stopped immediately, but it can take up to 10 minutes for the cancellation to show in the portal. If you cancel in the middle of a billing period, you'll still receive a final invoice on your typical invoice date after the period ends.

You can delete your subscription directly using the Azure portal seven days after you cancel it, when the Delete subscription option becomes available. However, Microsoft waits 30 to 90 days before permanently deleting your data in case you need to access it or recover your data.

If you accidentally cancel your subscription with pay-as-you-go rates, you can reactivate it in the Azure portal. If your subscription isn't a pay-as-you-go subscription, you can contact support within 90 days of cancellation to reactivate your subscription.