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Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure offers numerous solutions that can shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face lies in implementing these solutions. </p><p>Implementing Azure Solutions helps you overcome this challenge by enabling you to implement Azure Solutions effectively. The book begins by guiding you in choosing the backend structure for your solutions. You will then work with the Azure toolkit and learn how to use Azure Managed Apps to share your solutions with the Azure service catalog. The book then focuses on various implementation techniques and best practices such as implementing Azure Cloud Services by configuring, deploying, and managing cloud services. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to work with Azure-managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Services. </p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Azure Cost Management

The second most important thing with running Azure services is to make sure they comply to the budgets set and make sure that the cheapest service that fits into the technical requirements is in use. Azure Cost Management could help you with that. Once enabled, it provides you an overview with drill-down feature for all services you are using within your Azure subscription:

In addition, it can analyze your existing services, monitor budgets, and give recommendations on how resources could be configured to be more cost-sensitive (for example, changing the VM type):

The cost analysis feature provides a great management overview on the costs and how they are split between the different services. Finally, you could even enable cost management for AWS or Google Cloud. If you enable this, Azure Cost Management is 1% of the revenue for these third-party clouds; for Azure it is cost-free: