CostManagement - Cloud Business & Technology

M365 Log-Size Calculation for Sentinel

9. August 202428. May 2024 by Yannic Graber

Microsoft Sentinel is ideal for extending the functions of Microsoft Defender XDR and other Defender products. I have already explained this in more detail in the blog entry https://www.graber.cloud/microsoft-sentinel-for-microsoft-365-a-must-have/. But what does Microsoft Sentinel for Microsoft 365 actually cost? There is no clear answer to this question, which is due to the difficulty of calculating the M365 log size for Microsoft Sentinel. This blog deals with precisely this question. It is intended to serve as a guide for cost estimation and shed some light on the darkness of log size and Sentinel costs. M365 Log-Size Calculation for Sentinel - a guide to cost estimation.

Azure Reserved Instance size flexibility

8. November 20216. October 2021 by Yannic Graber

With cloud services now widely available on the market, flexibility for customers has multiplied. Quickly start a virtual test environment on Azure at the push of a button and then clean it up again. However, if you want to run several virtual machines on Azure continuously, it is worth planning and save costs by means of a reservation. In order not to have to sacrifice flexibility completely, there is the "Azure Reserved Instance size flexiblity" offer, which is used for VMs and scale sets. In this article, I will go into more detail about how Azure Reserved Instance size flexibility works and how you can use it to your advantage and save money.

Azure Cost Management for CSP customers

15. June 2020 by Yannic Graber

Azure Cost Management has already been available for Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) since the end of 2019. This means that a CSP can view the costs incurred for the purchased Microsoft Cloud Services directly in the Azure Portal. The customer, on the other hand, has no access by default. The following is an explanation of how to activate Azure Cost Management as a CSP for a customer, what the requirements are and what restrictions currently exist.