It wouldn't be an Azure This Week hosted by me if I didn't bring you some cost
management news,
also Dv5 and Ev5 series virtual machines are now in preview,
bringing along some cost savings.
And Azure is going to be at the Red Hat Summit, 2021,
and they shared some news ahead of it. Lots of get into hi I'm Gwen,
and welcome to another episode of Azure This Week.
Do you know what you're spending your money on when it comes to your Azure
environment?
This is what Azure Cost Management and Billing has been designed to help you
with. This week Azure has released a few updates to the tool.
The retail prices API gives you access to pay as you go prices for different
Azure services broken down to the individual meter level.
And the good news is you can now request prices in any supported currency.
I'll make sure to leave a link in the resources so you can go check this out.
Cost management labs is a feature that allows you to get a sneak peek at what's
coming to cost management.
And you also get the opportunity to provide feedback on these new features.
Some new features here include improved custom date selections and the cost
analysis preview and updates to the cost analysis view for resources
and reservations.
Cost Management and Billing is one of those tools that is consistently getting
updates. So don't expect these to slow down anytime soon.
After all,
we all want to understand our spending better and maybe even save some money.
All right, then onto some virtual machine news.
The Dv5 and Ev5 series are now in preview.
They run on the latest third gen Intel Exxon platinum Ice Lake processor in
a hyper threaded configuration and deliver up to 15% increased performance
for many workloads and better price to performance than previous Dv4 and Ev4
series. For general purpose workloads, e-commerce systems,
web fronts, entry-level and mid-range databases,
the Dv5 series most likely will be your best bet as it offers a balance of
memory to vCPU performance.
With increased scalability up to 96 virtual CPUs and
384 gigabytes of ram. Now,
if you require something more memory intensive for large relational database
servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications,
et cetera, the Ev5 series is the one for you.
As it offers high memory to virtual CPU ratios with increased scalability up to
96 virtual CPU's and 672 gigabytes of memory.
Both series offer options with and without local disc storage.
And the preview is initially available in the East US 2 region at a
significantly discounted price. So if you're looking to play around with these,
now might be a great way to get hands-on with them for cheaper.
Microsoft will be joining the annual Red Hat Summit 2021,
where they plan to share the latest developments that will enable Red Hat
customers to work natively in Azure.
Some of these include Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux now supports Azure reserved
instances.
This is going to allow customers to save money on both the software costs and
the compute costs when running RHEL in Azure.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters can now be onboarded to Azure arc enabled
Kubernetes.
So you can manage and govern all your Kubernetes clusters from a single
location.
You can now use GitOps configurations to configure applications
consistently.
And they also mentioned that they are working closely with Red Hat to enhance
Ansible on Azure integration. Red Hat enterprise is a massive,
massive part of the Linux space so it's great to see Azure's commitment on
continuing work and support for services for Red Hat customers.
Will you be testing out the new Dv5 or Ev5 series? Let me know in the comments,
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