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Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices
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Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices

by Rosemary Wang
August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 4m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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12 Cost of cloud computing

This chapter covers

  • Investigating cost drivers for cloud cost
  • Comparing cost-optimization practices
  • Implementing tests for cost-compliant IaC
  • Calculating an estimate for infrastructure cost

When you use a cloud provider, you get very excited at the ease of provisioning. After all, you can create a resource at the click of a mouse or a single command. However, the cost of cloud computing becomes a concern as your organization scales and grows. Your updates to infrastructure as code can affect the overall cost of the cloud!

We must build cost considerations into our infrastructure just as we build security into it. If you make your system and find out you overran your cost, you could break the system while trying to ...

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