Enterprise Azure Governance

Governance Best Practice: Remediation & Optimization of Azure ...

Repudiate or Remediate? Deployments in Azure have a few methodologies by which they can be governed based on sets of rules which taken together are called policies. When ...
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Learn How to Use Azure Tagging to Analyze Costs & Support Chargebacks

Gain a Better Understanding of Azure Spending Azure costs are fairly predictable in many circumstances. A virtual machine has a per hour of compute, a burstable SKU has ...
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Cloud Governance & Cost Management

Moving to the Cloud Was Going to Save Me Money?! Cloud costs are only somewhat predictable. You used the Azure cost calculator and the numbers just do not match up. At ...
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What is Cloud Sprawl & How Do I Avoid It?

Governing Cloud Sprawl Junk drawers are great for kitchens. I get to throw in whatever tools I’ll eventually need into a single drawer and forget they exist until I ...
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What is Governance as Code?

The perils of enforcing traditional IT governance in Azure You’re considering moving your software out to Azure, you’ve read a lot about the benefits of the cloud, ...
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Azure Governance. Do or Do Not. There is No Try.

Governance as Code, this is the Way Azure Governance artifacts, such as json files with deployment scripts, are visible and human-readable artifacts that can be stored ...
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How to Use Policies as Governance Guard Rails

Why Do We Need Guard Rails? Most organizations have some form of workload in the cloud, whether it is testing the waters or a full end to end solution generating ...
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How to Empower Azure Self-Service for Self-Organization

Should I Hit it with a Hammer? When deploying to Azure whether through a CI/CD pipeline, Azure Portal, or any other supported method, there are gates we can add to help ...
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