Introduction
The cloud has become ubiquitous across organizations of all shapes and sizes and is broadly viewed as vital to innovation, flexibility, market disruption, and finding new ways of connecting with customers. However, the challenges of managing IT infrastructure are not unique to the cloud. Lack of critical resources and expertise, growing complexity, cost overruns, and governance and security concerns are likely to be all too familiar to operations teams.
Regardless of cloud provider, managing cloud infrastructure is a complex and ongoing process, one that requires careful planning, monitoring, governance, and continuous optimization. Migrating to the cloud is a major feat on its own, but the challenge doesn’t end there. Once your workloads are successfully operating in the cloud, the following concerns arise:
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How do you manage that infrastructure in a way
that minimizes risk, while ensuring performance
and uptime?
How do you control costs and charge back cloud usage to appropriate departments to meet
business objectives?
How do you use your existing cloud infrastructure estate to guide data-driven decision-making regarding future growth at scale, while still architecting within the guidelines of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework?
In this interactive eBook, we address each of these questions and outline the five critical components of continuous Azure infrastructure optimization, which we refer to simply as the “Big 5.” We then provide guidance on how to best implement the “Big 5” to ensure your Azure workloads are continuously running on the most operationally efficient and cost-effective infrastructure.