Cost management and governance

Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Maarten Van den Broeck

Senior Content Developer at DataCamp

Costs in Azure

  • Renting resources and services instead of having your own
  • Typical Azure cost structure: pay-as-you-go
  • Azure Marketplace for third-party vendors

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Cost management

Typical cost management tasks in Azure:

  • Follow-up of resource and application costs
  • Setting up budgets, limits, and alerts
  • Cost analysis

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Example use case: budgeting

You are responsible for setting up the budgets in Azure for the data projects of your company

Using Azure, you can:

  • Set spending limits
  • Set up an alert if the project goes over budget
  • Create a monthly cost overview report

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Governance and compliance

  • Guiding principles for operating responsibly
  • Principles: accountability, transparency, security
  • Typical use case: compliance
    • Adherence to applicable industry standards, laws, and regulations
    • Supervised internally and externally

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Governance with Azure

Typical governance tasks in Azure:

  • Set up specific governance policies
  • Log user actions to provide an audit trail
  • Document and report fulfillment of regulatory obligations with the help of Azure
  • Azure takes into account different requirements according to region

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

Example use case: data protection regulations

You are the compliance officer in charge of ensuring your company follows data protection regulations

Using Azure, you can:

  • Enforce the use of data sensitivity labels
  • Require encryption of sensitive data

Example of data sensitivity policy

Understanding Microsoft Azure Management and Governance

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