What this book covers
Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Bills, enables you to gather insights, audit, and enforce automation and policies for successful cloud cost governance. You will also gain a deep understanding of how service categories and cloud meters work.
Chapter 2, What Does Your Cloud Spending Look Like?, provides you with several tools and guidelines to successfully implement structured cost governance that matches the financial and technical KPIs of your company.
Chapter 3, Monitoring Costs, enables you to put in place a cost administration process and successfully monitor and control costs through dashboards and alerts.
Chapter 4, Planning for Cost Savings – Right-Sizing, will help you understand and use cost-saving tools such as reservations, along with techniques to downsize, switch off and on, and offer on-demand solutions, where possible, for Azure resources.
Chapter 5, Planning for Cost Savings – Cleanup, helps you learn how to properly set up a control process to handle reservations: from understanding the model to successfully driving a full capacity strategy of reserved services.
Chapter 6, Planning for Cost Savings – Reservations, will help you get familiar with a clear path and process of handling services and Reservations in Azure, from the initial purchase process to the daily utilization check and periodic changes that might be needed.
Chapter 7, Application Performance and Cloud Cost, helps you learn how a well-designed and performant application can bring down cloud costs and shows how an investment in performance optimization strategies, such as database tuning, is easily and quickly repaid by the monthly savings.
Chapter 8, Sustainable Applications and Architectural Patterns, focuses on the new concept of sustainable (or green) software engineering and how applications designed for performance and cost management can also have a lower impact on their carbon footprint.
Assessments contains all the answers to the questions in all the chapters of this book.