Summary

As you have seen, it is beneficial for organizations to put organization-wide cost management and guardrails in place to help free up their teams so they can provide more innovation. Balancing your workloads for performance and resiliency while trying to maintain costs in the cloud can be cumbersome, and you shouldn't allow costs to be the only driving force.

In this chapter, we have reviewed ways to optimize your costs, from right-sizing or creating automation around unused resources to building budgets and alerts for your teams to monitor expenses.

With Azure, there is a distinct cost difference between on-premises datacenters and virtualizing those datacenters in the cloud. We reviewed some of the ways to approach these costs and cost models in Azure. We talked about the unique benefits of adopting Azure, including the ability to span to the cloud with hybrid models for workloads that don't entirely need to run in the cloud. We have also seen some tools to...