Chapter 13: Validating and Managing Bills

Every month, a bill will arrive from different cloud providers. What are the different billing options? How do you validate the costs on the bill? And if you have deployments in more than one cloud, what are your options for having one centralized cost overview?

We will learn how to view and analyze costs in the consoles of Azure, AWS, and GCP. This chapter will show you how to define billing accounts and billing profiles so that specific roles in your organization can track their costs. We will also learn the importance of having a process in place to validate billing to ensure that all costs are tracked appropriately. In the last section, we will explore possibilities to consolidate billing in one ...

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