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Azure for Decision Makers

By : Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
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Book Image

Azure for Decision Makers

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By: Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you’ll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you’ll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Next Steps

Effective budgeting for Azure services

One of the key challenges organizations face when managing cloud costs is ensuring that they stay within their budgetary constraints. The Microsoft Cost Management + Billing service for Azure provides a range of tools to help organizations manage their cloud expenses effectively, including the ability to set and manage budgets for their Azure services.

To set up a budget in Cost Management + Billing for Azure, organizations can use the budget feature, which enables them to define a budget threshold and track their spending against this threshold over time. This can be done at various levels, such as subscription, resource group, or resource level, providing organizations with granular visibility into their cloud expenses and enabling them to identify areas where they may need to adjust their spending patterns.

Figure 6.2: Azure Budgets

Once you have established a budget in Azure, you can easily monitor your spending...