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

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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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You will need to have a basic understanding of Azure cloud services and architecture as well as cloud cost management principles, financial management concepts, and the Azure Cost Management tool. Having access to usage and billing data for your Azure resources is also helpful to analyze your cloud cost.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
Microsoft Azure portal access	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Microsoft Power BI Desktop
DAX Studio
Microsoft Power Automate
Azure SQL
AKS
Kubecost

You will need a Microsoft Power BI Pro or Premium license to run the data-driven alert feature described in Chapter 11, Metric-Driven Cost Optimization.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

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