The Road to Azure Cost Governance

This is the code repository for The Road to Azure Cost Governance , published by Packt.

Techniques to tame your monthly Azure bill with a continuous optimization journey for your apps

What is this book about?

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. 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.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Use Azure reporting, monitoring, and configurations to model your cloud resources and make costs clearer
• Discover resource-saving techniques and put them into practice
• Establish a continuous clean-up and rightsizing process
• Explore and implement automation to drive recurrent savings
• Find out how to use Azure Reservations in the best possible way
• Get started with building cloud native, cost-optimized applications
• Get to grips with implementing cost- and carbon-aware applications on Azure

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

Tag name : BsnApp
Tag value : |Application1234|
Tag name : Landscape
Tag value : Production

Following is what you need for this book: 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.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-8).

Software and Hardware List

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Related products

• Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance [Packt] [Amazon]

• Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Fourth Edition [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Paola E. Annis has worked for over 25 years in IT. Currently at Microsoft enjoying the Azure cloud, she has extensive experience working with strategic customers on largemigrations and digital transformation projects. In her daily work, she advocates cost governance, sustainable software engineering, and women in tech communities. She lives in Milan with her kids, cats, and husband. In her spare time, she enjoys heavy metal music while embarking on improbable DIY projects for her country house

Giuliano Caglio has over 15 years of experience. He is constantly looking for challenges in infrastructure management to relate to applications and infrastructure and thus reach a broader view of cloud environments, asset management, and cost governance. He lives near Milan with one daughter, two turtles, and his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, electronics, and railway modeling DIY projects.

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