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Cost Optimization and Monitoring

In this course, you will go over the best practices for understanding how cost management is an important aspect of a well architected framework. For each lesson, you will learn the fundamental concepts, how experts think about the topic, and then deep dive into the Azure offerings. Throughout the course, you will deep dive into how to design for a cloud optimized architecture instead of trying to apply the traditional on-premises architecture principles, how monitoring for cloud efficiency helps an organization bring transparency and visibility into cloud costs, and how to leverage automation of infrastructure autoscale as well as Azure available API’s for cost analysis to ensure cost transparency and savings.

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  • Advanced
  • 18 hours
  • Updated: Aug 4, 2025

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Skills you'll learn

11 skills

  • Cloud cost policies
  • Cloud cost evaluation
  • Automated cloud cost optimization
  • Azure pricing calculator
  • Azure smart alerts

Prerequisites

8 prerequisites

Prior to enrolling, you should have the following knowledge:

  • VPN
  • CI/CD
  • Azure CLI
  • Computer networking basics
  • JSON

You will also need to be able to communicate fluently and professionally in written and spoken English.

Course Outline

  • 6 lessons
  • 1 project

Program Instructors

1 instructor

Unlike typical professors, our instructors come from Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and have demonstrated leadership and expertise in their professions:

Pratik Shah

Cloud Solutions Architect

Pratik Shah

Cloud Solutions Architect

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