Establish successful FinOps practice and bring financial visibility to define cost optimization goals and apply learnings to realize savings for your organization. Key Features * Build FinOps team and collaborate across organization to save money in economic challenging times * Use deep insights from native Azure cost management tools for resource usage and rate optimization * Apply gained knowledge to run a successful FinOps practice and help business grow by reinvesting savings * Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Book Description In an economic uncertain and challenging time, cost savings is a top priority for every business to optimize their spending for Microsoft Azure cloud services. You must understand how to build, run, and sustain repeated cost optimization initiatives across the organization by collaborating with finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams. This book offers a concise breakdown of all activities in Informe, Optimize and Operate phases and aligns them with industry standard FinOps practices. You will begin by creating visibility of your existing workload in Azure and allocate the cost for business units or applications. Then you will benchmark current spend in various cloud services and establish a monthly, quarterly, or yearly budget. Further, you will delve into the Optimize phase with defining savings goals and KPIs. You will also learn negotiation with cloud provider to optimize the rate by committing to certain consumption or purchase reservations and savings plans. Next, you will gain experience with container cost allocation and metric driven cost optimization strategies. Finally, you will develop the metrics for calculating unit economics. By the end of this book, you will gain crystal clear understanding with real world examples, use cases, and scenarios to achieve mastery for Azure cloud financial management. What you will learn * Learn FinOps Informe, Optimize and Operate model for Microsoft Azure * Choose from Reservations, Savings Plans, and Spot VMs to reduce cost * Discover resource waste using provided pre-built workbooks * Write an effective financial business case and build a FinOps strategy * Relate what you learned with three real world use case * Accurately forecast future cloud spend and track budgets Who This Book Is For This book is for cloud operations professionals and enterprise architects who want to start Cloud financial management practice for Microsoft Azure. Individuals from cloud governance, finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams along with CFOs and CTOs can significantly benefit from clear guidance to implement Informe, Optimize and Operate phases of FinOps specifically in context of Microsoft Azure. Readers are expected to have some familiarity with basic financial terms, analytics tools, and Microsoft Azure cloud.

Book Information
ISBN 9781801810166
Author Maulik Soni
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
Publisher Packt Publishing Limited