DOWNLOAD: Free eBook, "The Road to Azure Cost Governance" (315pgs, .PDF)

Posted by: kurtsh | June 2, 2023

DOWNLOAD: Free eBook, "The Road to Azure Cost Governance" (315pgs, .PDF)

Having a strategy on ensuring proper cost management of your Azure cloud instance should be top priority for cloud-enabled organizations.

This is a blog post & a FREE eBook that we’ve made available that goes over Azure Cost Governance top to bottom, including how billing works, cost optimization, setting guardrails and thresholds for your usage, etc.

Make sure you’re spending your budget on Azure wisely & optimally by driving toward “cloud efficiency” with Cost Governance.

What is cloud efficiency?

It is the capacity to utilize cloud resources in the best possible way, and at the lowest possible cost while, at the same time, minimizing the waste of resources, and thus of energy and carbon emissions. It’s a combination of cost—how you handle and govern your cloud infrastructure, carbon—how you can keep carbon emissions at a minimum, and energy—how the application uses electricity, and how you can optimize these three areas to make the cheapest, more modern, efficient, and sustainable application. In this post, we will explore why you should immediately start your cloud cost management and governance process.

Cloud cost optimization is essential for companies as it directly impacts their bottom line and OPEX expenses. The cost of cloud computing can quickly add up, especially for businesses with a high volume of data or high traffic, and mission-critical applications.

Cloud cost optimization is what makes workloads more efficient, but what are its benefits?

Understanding, measuring, optimizing, and tracking your cloud costs. Having full control of your monthly bill should be your primary goal.

Reduce carbon emissions. Cloud computing consumes a significant amount of energy, and the increased usage of cloud resources has resulted in a substantial increase in carbon emissions. Cloud providers are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint, but businesses can also play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions by optimizing their cloud resources.

Improve the performance of applications. This can significantly impact user experience, as slow or unresponsive applications can lead to frustrated customers and lost revenue. By optimizing cloud resources, companies can ensure that their applications run smoothly, improving customer satisfaction, and decreasing cloud spend.

Saving on your application’s cost in a systematic way can give you a budget for additional features, refactoring, and innovation.

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This article below goes over the different ways Azure users can optimize their costs. The eBook reviews how billing works specifically for customers with EAs as well as other contacting scenarios. For example: