You're reading from Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800203198

Length 412 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Jeroen Mulder

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Introduction to Architecture and Governance for Multi-Cloud Environments

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Multi-Cloud FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Business Acceleration Using a Multi-Cloud Strategy

4. Chapter 3: Getting Connected – Designing Connectivity

5. Chapter 4: Service Designs for Multi-Cloud

6. Chapter 5: Managing the Enterprise Cloud Architecture

7. Section 2 – Getting the Basics Right with BaseOps

8. Chapter 6: Designing, Implementing, and Managing the Landing Zone

9. Chapter 7: Designing Resilience and Performance

10. Chapter 8: Defining Automation Tools and Processes

11. Chapter 9: Defining and Using Monitoring and Management Tools

12. Section 3 – Cost Control in Multi-Cloud with FinOps

13. Chapter 10: Managing Licenses

14. Chapter 11: Defining Principles for Resource Provisioning and Consumption

15. Chapter 12: Defining Naming Conventions and Tagging

16. Chapter 13: Validating and Managing Bills

17. Section 4 – Security Control in Multi-Cloud with SecOps

18. Chapter 14: Defining Security Policies

19. Chapter 15: Implementing Identity and Access Management

20. Chapter 16: Defining Security Policies for Data

21. Chapter 17: Implementing and Integrating Security Monitoring

22. Section 5 – Structured Development on Multi-Cloud Environments with DevOps

23. Chapter 18: Designing and Implementing CI/CD Pipelines

24. Chapter 19: Introducing AIOps in Multi-Cloud

25. Chapter 20: Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Multi-Cloud

26. Assessments

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 13: Validating and Managing Bills

Every month, a bill will arrive from different cloud providers. What are the different billing options? How do you validate the costs on the bill? And if you have deployments in more than one cloud, what are your options for having one centralized cost overview?

We will learn how to view and analyze costs in the consoles of Azure, AWS, and GCP. This chapter will show you how to define billing accounts and billing profiles so that specific roles in your organization can track their costs. We will also learn the importance of having a process in place to validate billing to ensure that all costs are tracked appropriately. In the last section, we will explore possibilities to consolidate billing in one centralized dashboard.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics: