Quick tips on Azure estimating and cost control
As you begin your journey with Azure, you should work at estimating the resources you intend to use in Azure. This will help keep you on the right track and also help with budgeting for your services. I try to approach this in the following way:
- Put together the expectations you plan to achieve. This will help keep you on the right path.
- You need to know the apps you are moving and creating. Understand the dependencies, creating sequence diagrams, and flow between resources. This helps with using the Azure pricing calculator.
- I like to prototype, which allows me to test and assess my resources.
- I keep an eye on cost and create alerts when the cost gets close to budgets. You can also put spending limits on subscriptions, but I wouldn't suggest that as once it is hit, your resources will stop working.
- I recommend using tags on your resources to group and monitor data., which can also be alerted on. I leverage this more when I want to track billing...
