Summary

This chapter covered the essential information that Ocean Smart used to understand the common Azure services that are used with cognitive services deployments. We also explored the most important things we must consider when deploying the services successfully at optimal costs, as well as their corresponding SLAs. We also went through a simple pricing exercise by comparing service tiers, looking at the services that are required to build a Form Recognizer PoC, and exporting the pricing calculator. These estimates will help you build the ROI and TCO models that we discussed in Chapter 2, Why Azure Cognitive Services?. As we diver deeper into this book and the build solutions for the specified use cases, we will look closer at the modeling costs for the solutions. Finally, we wrapped up this chapter by providing an overview of some data movement tools that can help you get your data moved to Azure efficiently for your requirements.

As we discussed earlier in this book, SLA...