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FinOps Handbook for Microsoft Azure

You're reading from FinOps Handbook for Microsoft Azure Empowering teams to optimize their Azure cloud spend with FinOps best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810166

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Maulik Soni

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Inform

2. Chapter 1: Bringing Visibility and Allocating Cost FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Benchmarking Current Spend and Establishing Budgets

4. Chapter 3: Forecasting the Future Spend

5. Chapter 4: Case Study – Beginning the Azure FinOps Journey

6. Part 2: Optimize

7. Chapter 5: Hitting the Goals for Usage Optimization

8. Chapter 6: Rate Optimization with Discounts and Reservations

9. Chapter 7: Leveraging Optimization Strategies

10. Chapter 8: Case Study - Realize Savings and Apply Optimizations

11. Part 3: Operate

12. Chapter 9: Building a FinOps Culture

13. Chapter 10: Allocating Costs for Containers

14. Chapter 11: Metric-Driven Cost Optimization

15. Chapter 12: Developing Metrics for Unit Economics

16. Chapter 13: Case Study – Implementing Metric-Driven Cost Optimization and Unit Economics

17. Index

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

We will be using the following tools to accomplish the tasks in this chapter:

The Kubecost open source tool, available at https://github.com/kubecost
An existing AKS cluster
Microsoft’s Cost Management + Billing tool, available at https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_Azure_CostManagement/Menu/~/overview. Alternatively, you can also find the Cost Management + Billing tool by signing into the Azure portal and, in the top-center search bar, typing Cost Management + Billing.

When using these tools, sign in to the Azure portal using your organization ID. Please refer to Chapter 1 for the minimum Role Based Access Control permissions required to use Azure Cost Management + Billing.

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Authors (1)

Maulik Soni

Maulik Soni

Maulik Soni is a principal cloud solutions architect with a track record of helping commercial enterprise customers successfully adopt and implement Azure core infrastructure services. He has a bachelor's degree in advanced accounting and auditing and an advanced diploma in computer business applications from the Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Classes in New Delhi. Maulik has delivered more than a dozen cost optimization assessments, providing actionable recommendations that have helped Fortune 50 companies save between $1-3 million per year in cloud costs. When he's not at work, Maulik indulges his passion for street photography. He also enjoys exploring new destinations with his wife and son.

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