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The Road to Azure Cost Governance

By : Paola E. Annis, Giuliano Caglio
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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
9
Section 3: Cost- and Carbon-Aware Cloud Architectures

Section 1: Cloud Cost Management

In this section, you will gain a full understanding of the Azure billing model and how to put a cost governance model in place with one or more tools for monitoring and controlling costs. To be able to audit and enforce automation and policies for successful cloud cost governance, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of how service categories and cloud meters work.

We'll learn several tools and guidelines to successfully implement a structured cost governance model that matches the financial and technical KPIs of your company. At the end of this section, you will have a cost governance process in place, and will be able to successfully monitor and control costs through dashboards and alerts.

This section comprises the following chapters: