7. Offers, support, resources, and tips to optimize cost in Azure

In the previous chapter, you saw the fundamentals of protecting your applications against cybercrime. We will now focus on various offers provided by Azure and the support you get from Microsoft to optimize costs, various tools that can be used to bring down costs, and tips for managing these costs.

As organizations begin their journey to the cloud, one of the main things they have to learn is how to optimize their costs. From a customer point of view, cost forecasting can be based on how to reduce their datacenter footprint, OPEX pricing models, staff productivity, and other factors.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Understanding and forecasting your costs ...

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