OCI Foundations - Governance and Administration
Pricing
Pricing Models:
- Pay as you go
- Annual Universal Credits (significant savings, more resource use are PAYG)
- Monthly universal credits
- Bring your own license
Factors that impact pricong:
- Bigger resources cost more
- Data transfer
- VMs vs bare metal
- Same pricing across the world
Data Transfer costs
- Don't pay for transfer between ADs
- Ingress traffic is free
- Pay or Outgoing traffic
Cost Management
Budgets:
- Set up alerts if forcasts are expected to exceed the budget
Cost Analysis:
- Look at past costs
- CSV files generated daily
Service Limits and Usage:
- Limits, Quotas and Usage controls
Compartment Quotas
- Sets the max number of cloud resources that can be used
- Prevent misuse, etc