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Cloud Native Architectures

You're reading from   Cloud Native Architectures Design high-availability and cost-effective applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280540
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tom Laszewski Tom Laszewski
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Kamal Arora Kamal Arora
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Piyum Zonooz Piyum Zonooz
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Erik Farr Erik Farr
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Preface 1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. The Cloud Adoption Journey 3. Cloud Native Application Design 4. How to Choose Technology Stacks 5. Scalable and Available 6. Secure and Reliable 7. Optimizing Cost 8. Cloud Native Operations 9. Amazon Web Services 10. Microsoft Azure 11. Google Cloud Platform 12. What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cost monitoring


CSP platforms are inherently built to be cost transparent. There are no hidden fees or service charges that a customer can't see until they begin building on the platform. All pricing is posted and kept updated on the sites of the big three and is readily available to anyone interested in pricing out an architecture. As mentioned earlier, pricing calculators are available from the CSPs to help prospective customers price out an environment before building. This trend was first established by AWS when they released their initial cloud services and have remained true to this day.

 

In a similar vein, once systems have been built on the cloud, each CSP has native services to help monitor, drill down, and explore service consumption and their related costs. AWS's Billing & Cost Management Dashboard is a perfect example of these cloud native capabilities. Features such as AWS Cost Explorer allow users to drill down into monthly bills, look at historical spends, and anticipate...

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