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The Road to Azure Cost Governance

You're reading from   The Road to Azure Cost Governance Techniques to tame your monthly Azure bill with a continuous optimization journey for your apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246444
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paola Annis Paola Annis
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Giuliano Caglio Giuliano Caglio
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Cost Management
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Bills FREE CHAPTER 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

Understanding right-sizing

As has been mentioned, and emphasized many times since Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Bills, cloud computing is not about overprovisioning, and right-sizing is probably the most important aspect of controlling cloud resources and costs. The impact is not simply saving money: in many cases, there is a balance between performance and spending and, more specifically, between meeting your internal customer service-level agreements (SLAs) efficiently. You need to find this balance to keep both your application managers and cost controllers happy. Let's dig into this further by dividing the scope of application—where the first step to right-sizing starts, of course—from your infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) resources.

Right-sizing is the process of continuously finding the right balance between resources' performance (RAM, storage, CPU cores) and the lowest possible cost for those resources. This means performing an assessment of your...

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