The Road to Azure Cost Governance: Techniques to tame your monthly Azure bill with a continuous optimization journey for your apps

Cover
Title
Copyright and Credits
Foreword
Table of Contents
Section 1: Cloud Cost Management
Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Bills
	Technical requirements
	So, you're doing cloud—now what?
	Understanding how cloud billing works
	Reviewing the Azure portal for cost management
	Matching your cloud billing with your company's department organization
	Sources of billing information and export methods of billing data
		Export methods
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: What Does Your Cloud Spending Look Like?
	Technical requirements
	Defining cost constraints
	Aiming for scalable costs
	Paying for consumption
	Reviewing the subscription hierarchy and management groups
		Management groups
	Understanding cost optimization automation and policies
		Tagging
		Management group policies for cost savings
		Automation of cost control
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Monitoring Costs
	Technical requirements
	Learning about and using Azure budgets and alerts
		Azure Advisor
		Dimensions analysis
		Useful representations
		Scheduling exports
		Defining budgets and configuring alerts
	Adopting Azure Cost Management Power BI
		Azure Hybrid Usage Benefit
		Reservations reports
	Defining and configuring automation scripts for cost control
	Thinking about an architecture for a custom cost management tool
		Translating for the non-technical audience
		Mind the gap between cloud costs and your cost control platform
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 2: Cloud Cost Savings
Chapter 4: Planning for Cost Savings – Right-Sizing
	Technical requirements
	Understanding right-sizing
		Right-sizing for IaaS
		Disk right-sizing
		Right-sizing PaaS services
	Enforcing on/off policies – scheduled and on-demand
		Saving on reservations
		Inducted right-sizing
		Licenses
		Backup
		Network storage
	Sample logic for cost control
		Understanding what you need to control
		Choosing from scheduler and orchestrator
		Building your own orchestrator
		Your world does not end in the cloud
		On-demand re-scaling
		Focusing on other scale-up patterns
		Drawback in rescaling PaaS and SaaS
		Typical per-resource-type cost-saving approach
		JIT provisioning
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Planning for Cost Savings – Cleanup
	Technical requirements
	Cleaning up the cloud resources
		Free stuff on Azure
		Azure Resource Graph
		Unassociated services
		Automated waste disposal
		Cleaning up networking resources
	Byproducts of migrating to Azure
		Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery
		Migration tagging strategy
		The snooze and stop workflow
		Dealing with a CMDB
	Identifying cost spikes
		Per-meter category split cost report
		Shared resources
		Primus inter pares – finding the cost leading resource
		Security implications of cleaning up
		Unused subscriptions
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Planning for Cost Savings – Reservations
	Technical requirements
	What happens when a resource is reserved?
		Learning about reservations for PaaS, Storage, and data services
		Deciding crossroads before reserving
		Getting information on your objects' usage
		Deciding whether reserving is the right choice
		Resources' size matters, even with reserved instances
		Setting reservations' privileges
		Actual view versus amortized view
	Reservation utilization
		What if you are not using 100% of your reservations?
		Automatically renewing reservations
		Right-sizing and new objects
		Financial implications of reservations
	Dealing with changes and cancellations
		Exchange and refund policies
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 3: Cost- and Carbon-Aware Cloud Architectures
Chapter 7: Application Performance and Cloud Cost
	Technical requirements
	Optimizing your database for costs
		Disk tuning
		Exploring the space between the database and the application
		Database optimization plan
	Application performance optimization
		Understanding technical debt
		Finding a KPI for your technical debt
		Reducing your technical debt
		Ways to optimize your technical debt and modernize your applications
		Application optimization and continuous improvement
		The antipattern for the brave
		Database sessions opening cost
		Learning about Azure Application Insights
		Embedded application cost optimization
	Practical examples
		Storage throughput versus network bandwidth
		A basic monolith app
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Sustainable Applications and Architectural Patterns
	Technical requirements
	Understanding sustainable software
		Defining a need for sustainability
		Principles of sustainable software engineering
	Demand shaping and shifting
		Demand shaping
		Demand shifting
	Sustainable cloud-native architectures
		Example of a green serverless app
		Carbon optimization of an on-premises application
		Programming languages and sustainability
	Measuring and fostering sustainability
		The Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard
		A data model for the carbon impact of applications
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Index