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The Road to Azure Cost Governance

By : Paola E. Annis, Giuliano Caglio
Book Image

The Road to Azure Cost Governance

By: Paola E. Annis, Giuliano Caglio

Overview of this book

Cloud teams and ICT cost controllers working with Azure will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide, introducing a process model for structured cost governance. The Road to Azure Cost Governance is a must-read if you find yourself facing the harsh reality of monthly cloud costs gradually getting out of control. Starting with how resources are created and managed, everything you need to know in order to track, display, optimize, rightsize, and clean up cloud resources will be tackled with a workflow approach that will leave the choice of operation to you (be it the Azure CLI, automation, logic apps, or even custom code). Using real-world datasets, you'll learn everything from basic cost management to modeling your cloud spend across your technical resources in a sustainable way. The book will also show you how to create a recursive optimization process that will give you full control of spending and savings, while helping you reserve budget for future cloud projects and innovation. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have a clear understanding and control of your cloud spend along with knowledge of a number of cost-saving techniques used by companies around the world, application optimization patterns, and the carbon impact of your cloud infrastructure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Cost Management
5
Section 2: Cloud Cost Savings
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Section 3: Cost- and Carbon-Aware Cloud Architectures

Understanding right-sizing

As has been mentioned, and emphasized many times since Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Bills, cloud computing is not about overprovisioning, and right-sizing is probably the most important aspect of controlling cloud resources and costs. The impact is not simply saving money: in many cases, there is a balance between performance and spending and, more specifically, between meeting your internal customer service-level agreements (SLAs) efficiently. You need to find this balance to keep both your application managers and cost controllers happy. Let's dig into this further by dividing the scope of application—where the first step to right-sizing starts, of course—from your infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) resources.

Right-sizing is the process of continuously finding the right balance between resources' performance (RAM, storage, CPU cores) and the lowest possible cost for those resources. This means performing an assessment of your...