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 given to it. Architects should design their applications in such a manner as to minimize cost as much as possible. They should use appropriate Azure resources, appropriate SKU, tier, and size, and should 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 budgetary expenses.
The next chapter of this book deals with the monitoring and auditing capabilities of Azure.
