Cost management and administration is an important activity when dealing with the cloud. This is primarily because the monthly expense could be very low, but can be very high if proper attention is not provided to it. Architects should design their application in such a manner, that it minimizes the cost. They should use appropriate Azure resources, appropriate Sku, tier, size, and know when to start, stop, scale up, scale out, scale down, scale in, transfer data, and more. Proper cost management will ensure that actual expenses meet the budgetary expenses.
The next and final chapter of this book deals will monitoring and auditing capabilities on Azure.