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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468659
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Leonardo Greg Leonardo
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Moving Existing Apps to Azure 3. Building Solutions in Azure 4. Understanding the Infrastructure behind Solutions Built in Azure 5. Developing Solutions the Right Way in Azure 6. Deploying Solutions to Azure 7. Putting It All Together 8. Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure 9. Assessments 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing cost

One of the biggest things you will need to learn is how to use the Azure pricing calculator found at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/, which you can see in the following figure:

Azure Pricing Calculator

This should help you estimate your monthly burn (consumption) and it is always better to start low then scale up as needed. You can put spending limits on the account and also leverage resource tags to track spending. You can add a tag to a resource, as you can see in the following figure:

Add a Tag to an Azure Resource

But, learning will take time and we all make mistakes our first time around; I just hope you can learn from my mistakes. I would leverage free services are you learn Azure as much are you can. I would also create an alert for your burn; let's look at how.

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