Chapter 6

Describe Azure pricing, SLAs, and lifecycles

We’ve covered most of the important concepts related to the cloud, but we still have a few important concepts to cover. The final topics we’ll cover are pricing in Azure, service level agreements (SLAs), and the lifecycle of Azure services.

Pricing doesn’t just involve knowing the price of Azure resources. Companies often want to know how much entire cloud solutions are going to cost before applications are deployed to the cloud, and once the application is deployed, they want to minimize costs as much as possible and have visibility into the ongoing costs of Azure resources.

We’ve already talked about high availability in the cloud, and Microsoft can help you with ensuring your application ...

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