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The Road to Azure Cost Governance

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246444
Pages 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Paola E. Annis Paola E. Annis
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Giuliano Caglio Giuliano Caglio
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Cost Management
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Bills 3. Chapter 2: What Does Your Cloud Spending Look Like? 4. Chapter 3: Monitoring Costs 5. Section 2: Cloud Cost Savings
6. Chapter 4: Planning for Cost Savings – Right-Sizing 7. Chapter 5: Planning for Cost Savings – Cleanup 8. Chapter 6: Planning for Cost Savings – Reservations 9. Section 3: Cost- and Carbon-Aware Cloud Architectures
10. Chapter 7: Application Performance and Cloud Cost 11. Chapter 8: Sustainable Applications and Architectural Patterns 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sample logic for cost control

As you may have guessed in the previous sections, right-sizing can be overwhelming when dealing with large complex organizations and/or projects. In addition, there isn't a one-for-all approach that, once applied, saves you tons of money with little effort.

Of course, policies help to maintain control, but you need to adapt Azure resource SKUs to your workload demand, and this cannot be achieved with a static, one-time-only action. In this section, you'll understand some basic principles that may help automate tasks to control costs using AZ CLI commands, but you are free to implement them as you prefer.

Understanding what you need to control

Usually, in your cloud infrastructure, you have a lot of different objects, but don't necessarily have to create automation: some objects may simply not need intervention. So, let's start posing some questions about your workload demands that, indeed, need attention, with sample answers...

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