Azure Resource Management
It is important to ensure that any data or workloads running in a cloud computing environment are managed in a governed, controlled, secured, and protected manner as they would be for a traditional computing model. Figure 3.14 illustrates these aspects:
![Figure 3.14: Cloud shape shows a relationship between the factors to be considered for Azure resource management like Secure, Configure, Govern, Monitor, and Protect.](https://static.packt-cdn.com/products/9781837630592/graphics/image/B19785_03_14.jpg)
Figure 3.14 – Azure resource management
Azure resource management solutions should include the following:
- Availability: This is managed through redundancy, replication, and traffic management.
- Protection: This is managed through backup and disaster recovery.
- Security: This is managed through threat protection and security posture management.
- Configuration: This is managed through automation, scripting, and update management.
- Governance: This is managed through access control, compliance, and cost management.
- Monitoring: This is managed through the collection of security incidents, events, resource health, performance metrics, logs, and diagnostics...