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Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure

A Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect needs to be able to strike the balance between consumption and performance, while focusing on the core business stakeholders, and those are the skills you will learn in this course.

James Bannan - Pluralsight course - Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure
by James Bannan

What you'll learn

In this course, Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure, you’ll learn the principal cost drivers of core Microsoft Azure technologies, what your options are to optimize them, and how align your solutions with stakeholder business requirements. First, you’ll focus on the guiding principles of consumption optimization. Next, you’ll work on extracting key information from business stakeholders which will inform your technical solutions. Finally, you’ll delve deep into core Microsoft Azure technologies and understand what the options and considerations are for optimization, while constantly focusing on monitoring and visibility and using that information to make informed decisions. When you’ve completed this course, you'll have gained the knowledge of how to listen to and understand business stakeholders and translate their needs into robust technical solutions which strike the right balance between consumption and performance.

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James Bannan - Pluralsight course - Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure
James Bannan

James Bannan is a published author and experienced public speaker based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Microsoft specialist, with a particular focus on Azure infrastructure architecture, development, and automation.

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