From the course: Complete Guide to Microsoft Copilot for Security: Empower and Protect the Security Operations Center (SOC) by Microsoft Press

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8.5 Copilot for Security scaling

8.5 Copilot for Security scaling - Microsoft Security Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Microsoft Copilot for Security: Empower and Protect the Security Operations Center (SOC) by Microsoft Press

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8.5 Copilot for Security scaling

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- One of the most common conversations we have when talking to customers about Copilot For Security is understanding how the cost is going to work short-term and long-term. Short-term being proof of concepts, long-term being forecasting how many SCUs they're going to need. As a reminder, a security compute unit, or a SCU, is how you power the Copilot For Security solution. As a reminder, it's kind of a hybrid of reservation and consumption, meaning you reserve a certain amount of SCUs and you consume against those. So if you were to say, four SCUs, which an SCU is $4, an SCU is $4 per hour for one SCU, if you reserve four SEUs, that would be $16 an hour US list price before discounts per hour. When you reserve, for example, four SCUs, you can use or lose those SCUs. So depending on how you use the system, you may want to scale up or scale down to meet your needs. This brings us to the question, how many SCUs do I need for a proof of concept as well as how do I forecast? On average, we…

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