Managing cost

One of the biggest things you will need to learn is how to use the Azure pricing calculator found at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/, which you can see in the following figure:

Azure Pricing Calculator

This should help you estimate your monthly burn (consumption) and it is always better to start low then scale up as needed. You can put spending limits on the account and also leverage resource tags to track spending. You can add a tag to a resource, as you can see in the following figure:

Add a Tag to an Azure Resource

But, learning will take time and we all make mistakes our first time around; I just hope you can learn from my mistakes. I would leverage free services are you learn Azure as much are you can. I would also create an alert for your burn; let's look at how.

Log into your subscriptions at https://account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions and at the time of writing this book, alerts were in preview, as you can see in the following figure:

Subscription...