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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Usage and Billing APIs

Although the portal is a great way to find usage, billing, and invoice information manually, Azure also provides the following APIs to programmatically retrieve details and create customized dashboards and reports. The APIs vary depending on the kind of subscription you are using. As there are many APIs, we will be sharing the Microsoft documentation with each API so that you can explore them all.

Azure Enterprise Billing APIs

EA customers have a dedicated set of APIs available for them to work with billing data. The following APIs use the API key from the EA portal for authentication; tokens from Azure Active Directory will not work with them:

  • Balance and Summary API: As we discussed earlier, EA works with a monetary commitment, and it is very important to track the balance, overage, credit adjustments, and Azure Marketplace charges. Using this API, customers can pull the balance and summary for a billing period.
  • Usage Details API: The Usage...