Tech and Other Stuff by Neil Koch

The Ultimate Azure Pricing Calculator Guide! - Part II

The Azure Pricing calculator is a tool used to estimate what costs you can expect to incur when utilizing Azure services. In this series of articles I will walk through the different options available. This one focuses on the VM compute resources for Reserved Instances in Azure. Part II - Reserved Instances How to find Reserved Instance pricin... Read more

The Ultimate Azure Pricing Calculator Guide! - Part I

The Azure Pricing calculator is a tool used to estimate what costs you can expect to incur when utilizing Azure services. In this series of articles I will walk through the different options available. This one focuses on the VM selector tool, selecting virtual machines, selecting storage and then adding them to a basic Azure Pricing Calculator ... Read more

Become a Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator!

The Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate is a hands-on certification for those who wish to become a Cloud Administrator. Through the content available from Microsoft Learn, YouTube and potentially taking a third-party private course you’ll have all the knowledge and experience to sit and pass this exam. This certification is tough... Read more

Get the Azure Fundamentals certification

The Azure Fundamentals certification is the recommended first step learning about Microsoft Azure. The certification provides a great introduction to Cloud Computing too! To help you pass this exam, Microsoft provides a full course via Microsoft Learn - their online Learning Platform. On top of this, there are amazing content creators on YouTube... Read more

See you @ the AWS Summit, New York, August 14, 2017

I’m looking forward to the AWS Summit next Monday, August 14 in New York City. There’s rumored to be around 9000 guests registered so it’s going to be huge! I’m sure they’ll be lots to learn from AWS given their breath of solution offerings. I’m particularly interested in two areas, Amazon AI and Amazon Machine learning. Very interested to see h... Read more