The Road to Azure Cost Governance

<p><strong>Get to grips with Microsoft Azure cost management and gain complete reliable and sustainable control of your cloud spend</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><ul><li>Explore resource rightsizing and cleanup methods and their implementation</li><li>Learn key resource usage optimization concepts</li><li>Understand app optimization and plan for optimized and sustainable cloud native applications</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Book Description:</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What You Will Learn:</strong></p><ul><li>Use Azure reporting monitoring and configurations to model your cloud resources and make costs clearer</li><li>Discover resource-saving techniques and put them into practice</li><li>Establish a continuous clean-up and rightsizing process</li><li>Explore and implement automation to drive recurrent savings</li><li>Find out how to use Azure Reservations in the best possible way</li><li>Get started with building cloud native cost-optimized applications</li><li>Get to grips with implementing cost- and carbon-aware applications on Azure</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Who this book is for:</strong></p><p>If you're someone who deals with Azure cloud costs and has a technical background this book will help you understand and control your cloud spending. This book is for decision-makers cloud managers cloud architects cost controllers and software solution professionals working with Microsoft cloud services in Azure and looking to build optimized solutions for their enterprise operations.</p>