Cloud Computing

FinOps: The Always-On Resource Audit

Cloud waste is a billion-dollar problem. This lesson teaches how to use Azure Advisor and Cost Management to identify zombie resources and set up automated shutdown logic.

Level: IntermediateCloud Computing

What You'll Learn

Azure Cost Management + Billing dashboard
Azure Advisor cost recommendations
Identifying zombie resources: unattached disks, idle VMs
Idle SQL database detection with metrics
Automated shutdown with Azure Automation runbooks
Budget alerts and cost anomaly detection
Tagging strategy for cost allocation

What's Included

🧭AI Tutor🔒

Interactive learning path with AI-generated lessons read aloud by your personal tutor

🧪Practice Lab🔒

Step-by-step lab instructions with AI guidance — run in your own IDE or sandbox.

🎙️Mock Interviews🔒

AI interviewer asks tailored questions, gives real-time feedback and a score report

📝Evaluation🔒

MCQ questions (theory, practical, code) to test your knowledge and earn a badge

⚔️Challenge AI🔒

Compete head-to-head against AI on real production problems — judged on correctness, performance, scalability, code quality, and edge cases

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Azure Cost Management Fundamentals

  • •Azure Cost Management + Billing overview
  • •Cost analysis: filtering by resource group, tag, service
  • •Azure Advisor: cost, security, and reliability recommendations
  • •Understanding reserved instances vs pay-as-you-go
  • •Setting up cost budgets and alert thresholds

Module 2: Identifying Zombie Resources

  • •Unattached managed disks: finding and deleting
  • •Idle VMs: CPU < 5% for 7 days detection query
  • •Orphaned public IP addresses and load balancers
  • •Idle Azure SQL databases using DTU metrics
  • •Resource tagging for ownership and cost accountability

Module 3: Automated Shutdown Logic

  • •Azure Automation: runbooks and schedules
  • •PowerShell runbook to stop idle VMs on a schedule
  • •Logic App: trigger shutdown on cost anomaly alert
  • •Policy: deny resource creation without required tags
  • •Capstone: automated zombie resource cleanup with cost report

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✓AI Tutor
✓Practice Lab
✓Mock Interviews
✓Evaluation
✓Challenge AI