Optimize

At this stage, you may have successfully migrated your services to the Azure cloud. As mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, however, the journey doesn't end here. If you remember, during our migration, we had an option to choose the size of the virtual machines that need to be created in Azure. For demonstration purposes, we let Azure decide the size of the target virtual machines. A couple of questions will surface at this point, for example: Is the sizing decision correct? Are the migrated workloads running efficiently?

The answer to these questions is delivered in the Optimize phase. In this phase, we ensure that the migrated workloads are running efficiently from a cost standpoint as well as a performance standpoint. Let's go ahead and cover some of the tools that are used to optimize the workloads, mainly from a cost perspective.

In the previous chapters, we discussed the relevant tools that are used in the respective phases. Likewise, the Optimize...