Summary

As discussed in this chapter, Azure governance is a crucial aspect of managing cloud infrastructure and is essential for organizations to ensure effective management of their cloud infrastructure, meet compliance requirements, enhance security, optimize costs, scale their infrastructure with ease, and maintain consistency in their infrastructure.

We reviewed the core components of Azure governance, including management groups, policies, blueprints, Resource Graph, and Cost Management. We learned that a well-defined cloud governance strategy involves continuous improvements over time.

In the field, it is strongly recommended that organizations establish a governance team responsible for overseeing cloud services. This team can be made up of IT professionals and business leaders, who can meet regularly to review an organization’s cloud governance strategy to ensure that it is aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives.

In the next chapter, we...