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Management and Governance premium Azure savings plan An Azure savings plan provides discounted pricing on eligible compute usage when you commit to an hourly spend for one or three years. Cost Management fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Azure savings plan, Azure savings plans, compute savings plan, savings plan for compute Quick peek Open full term page

Databases premium Azure SQL vCore model The Azure SQL vCore purchasing model lets customers independently choose compute, storage, service tier, and hardware configuration for Azure SQL Database workloads. Azure SQL Database intermediate 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Storage premium Azure Storage Actions Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform for automating data management tasks across Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage objects without provisioning separate compute. Storage platform intermediate 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Web premium Bandwidth in/out Bandwidth in/out refers to measured inbound and outbound network traffic or throughput for Azure resources, often reviewed through metrics, diagnostics, and billing data. App Service metric intermediate 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Storage premium Azure Storage Discovery Azure Storage Discovery is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage estates for analysis, optimization, security, and operations. Storage platform intermediate 3 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Cost export Cost export is an Azure glossary term for a recurring Cost Management job that writes cost and usage datasets to Azure Storage for reporting, reconciliation, analytics, or automation. In practice, it helps teams reason about moving detailed cost data out of the portal and into governed storage, data pipelines, Power BI models, or finance systems using live Azure evidence, documented ownership, and Microsoft Learn guidance. It should be reviewed through security, reliability, operations, cost, and performance lenses before production changes. Cost Management intermediate 3 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Cost recommendation Cost recommendation is an Azure glossary term for an Azure Advisor or Cost Management suggestion that identifies a likely way to reduce spend or improve cost efficiency. In practice, it helps teams reason about turning usage and configuration telemetry into actionable savings opportunities such as right-sizing, cleanup, reservations, or commitment planning using live Azure evidence, documented ownership, and Microsoft Learn guidance. It should be reviewed through security, reliability, operations, cost, and performance lenses before production changes. Azure Advisor intermediate 3 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Storage premium Archive access tier Archive access tier is the low-cost, offline storage tier for blob data that you keep for long retention but do not need to read quickly. It is useful for backups, compliance records, historical exports, and evidence that must remain available eventually, not immediately. The tradeoff is simple: storage is cheaper, but retrieval takes planning. Blob Storage intermediate 2 commands Aliases: Azure Blob archive tier, Archive tier, Blob archive access tier Quick peek Open full term page

Databases verified Request Unit In Azure Cosmos DB, a request unit is the normalized measure of resource cost for database operations. Reads, writes, and queries consume RUs, and provisioned throughput is expressed as RU/s so teams can plan performance and cost consistently across APIs and workloads. across APIs. Cosmos DB fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: RU, RU/s, Cosmos DB request unit, request unit charge, Cosmos throughput currency Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance verified Required tag policy A required tag policy uses Azure Policy to enforce tagging rules so resources are created with expected organizational tags. Depending on the definition and effect, it can deny noncompliant deployments, audit missing tags, modify requests, or remediate existing resources with standardized tag values. Azure Policy intermediate 6 commands Aliases: require tag policy, mandatory tag policy, Azure Policy tag enforcement, tag governance policy, required tag and value policy Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance verified Owner tag An owner tag is an Azure resource tag whose key-value pair identifies the person, team, service owner, or business group accountable for a resource. Microsoft Learn describes tags as metadata applied to resources, resource groups, and subscriptions to organize, track, govern, and report on Azure assets. Tags and naming intermediate 5 commands Aliases: resource owner tag, service owner tag, technical owner tag, Owner= tag Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance verified Resource drift Resource drift is the gap between the intended Azure configuration in code, policy, or design and the resource state that actually exists after manual changes or unmanaged deployments. Operational hygiene intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Azure resource drift, infrastructure drift, configuration drift, IaC drift, deployment drift Quick peek Open full term page

Compute field-manual-complete VM auto-shutdown VM auto-shutdown is an Azure Virtual Machines setting that schedules a virtual machine to shut down at a chosen time. Teams use it mainly for non-production VMs to reduce compute charges when machines are idle outside working hours or training windows. Virtual Machines intermediate 5 commands Aliases: auto-shutdown, scheduled shutdown, VM scheduled shutdown, Azure VM auto shutdown Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance complete Showback A FinOps reporting practice that shows Azure consumption to accountable teams without directly billing them. Cost Management fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: cost showback, cloud showback, FinOps showback, showback reporting Quick peek Open full term page

Compute complete Stopped VM Microsoft Learn describes a stopped Azure virtual machine as allocated on a host but not running, also called PoweredOff or Stopped (Allocated). This state can result from guest operating system shutdown or the PowerOff operation, and the VM remains billed for compute. Virtual Machines intermediate 5 commands Aliases: stopped-vm, Stopped VM, VM stopped, Stopped allocated VM, PoweredOff VM, Azure VM stopped state Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance top-250-pre130-priority-upgraded Azure budget A Microsoft Cost Management resource that tracks spending against a configured amount and sends alerts when cost thresholds are reached. Cost Management intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Azure cost budget, Cost Management budget, budget, cloud budget alert Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance top-250-pre130-priority-upgraded Amortized cost Amortized cost is a Cost Management view that spreads reservation or savings plan purchases across the period they benefit, instead of showing the full purchase spike on the billing date. FinOps fundamentals 3 commands Aliases: amortized costs, amortized cost metric, reservation amortization, Amortized cost Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance complete Cost Analysis Cost Analysis is an Azure glossary term for the Cost Management workspace for exploring Azure spending by scope, service, resource, tag, time period, meter, and trend. In practice, it helps teams reason about understanding where money is going, why it changed, and which owner should respond before budgets or forecasts are missed using live Azure evidence, documented ownership, and Microsoft Learn guidance. It should be reviewed through security, reliability, operations, cost, and performance lenses before production changes. Cost Management beginner 3 commands Aliases: Azure Cost Analysis, Cost Management Cost Analysis Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance complete Cost forecast Cost forecast is an Azure glossary term for a projected estimate of future Azure costs based on historical resource use and the selected Cost Analysis scope. In practice, it helps teams reason about predicting whether current usage trends will exceed budget, funding, or commitment expectations before the billing period ends using live Azure evidence, documented ownership, and Microsoft Learn guidance. It should be reviewed through security, reliability, operations, cost, and performance lenses before production changes. Cost Management beginner 3 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance complete Cost Management Cost Management is an Azure glossary term for Microsoft’s FinOps toolset for analyzing, monitoring, allocating, exporting, alerting on, and optimizing Microsoft Cloud costs. In practice, it helps teams reason about connecting Azure spending to owners, budgets, recommendations, forecasts, exports, anomalies, and governance decisions using live Azure evidence, documented ownership, and Microsoft Learn guidance. It should be reviewed through security, reliability, operations, cost, and performance lenses before production changes. Cost Management beginner 3 commands Aliases: Azure Cost Management, Microsoft Cost Management, Microsoft Cost Management and Billing Quick peek Open full term page