Summary
In this chapter, we touched on the first pillar of the WAF: cost optimization. We started with an introduction to cost management and the need for it. As we progressed, we explored the design principles that we need to consider before moving our workloads to the cloud. After that, we covered the checklists. The checklists are crucial for designing, provisioning, monitoring, and optimizing cost in Microsoft Azure. The first step is to understand the design checklist and embrace the cost model and architecture design aspects. Keeping the design checklist in mind, we need to provision the resources required for our workload. We cannot start the optimization at this point because we do not have enough data or telemetry to make a decision. This is where the monitoring checklist comes into the picture, where we learn to collect the data and visualize it in a meaningful way. Once we have telemetry, we can start optimizing the workloads. While optimizing the workloads, remember that...