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The Road to Azure Cost Governance

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Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246444
Pages 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paola E. Annis Paola E. Annis
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Paola E. Annis has worked for over 25 years in IT. Currently at Microsoft enjoying the Azure cloud, she has extensive experience working on strategic customers, large migrations, and digital transformation projects. In her daily work, she advocates cost governance and sustainable software engineering, and women in tech's communities. She lives in Milan with her kids, cats, and husband. In her spare time, she enjoys heavy metal music while embarking on improbable DIY projects for her country house.
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Giuliano Caglio Giuliano Caglio
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Giuliano Caglio has over 15 years of experience. He is constantly looking for challenges in infrastructure management, to relate applications and infrastructure topics to reach a broader view of cloud environment, asset management and cost governance. He lives near Milan with 1 daughter, 2 turtles and his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, electronics, and railway modeling DIY projects.
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Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Cost Management
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Bills 3. Chapter 2: What Does Your Cloud Spending Look Like? 4. Chapter 3: Monitoring Costs 5. Section 2: Cloud Cost Savings
6. Chapter 4: Planning for Cost Savings – Right-Sizing 7. Chapter 5: Planning for Cost Savings – Cleanup 8. Chapter 6: Planning for Cost Savings – Reservations 9. Section 3: Cost- and Carbon-Aware Cloud Architectures
10. Chapter 7: Application Performance and Cloud Cost 11. Chapter 8: Sustainable Applications and Architectural Patterns 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6: Planning for Cost Savings – Reservations

In the previous chapter, we learned about getting rid of unused or ghost resources and right-sizing cloud objects to their requirements. This was a prerequisite for this chapter, where we will learn how to set up a governance process to handle reservations, from understanding the billing and pricing model to successfully driving a full capacity strategy for reserved services.

We will learn about privileges, actual versus amortized views, and using a workflow for execution. We will learn what to do when usage is not optimal and understand the financial implications of reservations, as well as how to deal with repetitive changes due to the fluid nature of cloud workloads.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • What happens when a resource is reserved?
  • Reservation utilization
  • Dealing with changes and cancellations

After reading this chapter, you will be finally ready to make your reservations...

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Profile icon Paola E. Annis
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Paola E. Annis has worked for over 25 years in IT. Currently at Microsoft enjoying the Azure cloud, she has extensive experience working on strategic customers, large migrations, and digital transformation projects. In her daily work, she advocates cost governance and sustainable software engineering, and women in tech's communities. She lives in Milan with her kids, cats, and husband. In her spare time, she enjoys heavy metal music while embarking on improbable DIY projects for her country house.
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Giuliano Caglio has over 15 years of experience. He is constantly looking for challenges in infrastructure management, to relate applications and infrastructure topics to reach a broader view of cloud environment, asset management and cost governance. He lives near Milan with 1 daughter, 2 turtles and his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, electronics, and railway modeling DIY projects.
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