Controlling resource consumption using cost alerts
In the previous sections, we discussed how we can provision resources—VMs—to our cloud environments and learned why it's important that we have control over what resources teams or developers can deploy, mainly because we have to stay in control of costs. The cloud is agile and flexible, but it doesn't come for free.
How do we keep track of costs? All cloud providers have dashboards that show exactly how much resource consumption will cost. That's a reactive approach, which can be fine. But if we want to force teams and developers to stay within budgets, we can set credit caps on subscriptions and have alerts raised as soon the cap is reached. The different ways to set caps in Azure, AWS, and GCP are listed in the following overview:
- In Azure, we can set budgets and alerts. Both services are part of the Cost Management module in Azure. We can set budgets for specific services for a certain amount...
