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Cost Management and Service Level Agreements (SLA) in Azure are important because they determine how much money it will cost a business to run various workloads in the cloud. In this article, we’ll look at methods to plan for and manage costs in Azure in addition to how Azure Service Level Agreements work in tandem with SLAs and service lifecycles. There are a variety of factors that can affect costs when computing in Azure such as resource types, services, locations, and inbound vs outbound traffic.…

Azure Governance, Privacy, and Compliance include things like role-based access control, resource locks, tags, Azure policy, Azure blueprints, and more. In addition to these, we’ll look at the purpose of the Microsoft Privacy Statement, Online Services Terms, and Data Protection Amendment policies. Regarding privacy and compliance, Microsoft has the Azure Sovereign Regions which include Government cloud services and Azure China cloud services. Protecting the data that’s entrusted to Microsoft by using strong encryption and access controls is a core tenant in Azure Governance, Privacy, And Compliance.…

Azure Identity Services is a key component of the Azure Cloud. The services that are a part of Azure Identity Services are what control authentication to, and authorization to use various resources. Azure Active Directory is a component of Azure Identity Services. In fact, it is the flagship identity service in Azure and provides users the ability to sign in to various resources. It can also be connected to on Premise Active Directory Domain Services to allow for sync between on Prem and Cloud which enables Hybrid solutions.…

Cloud-based services and their adoption into modern business workflows have created a need to manage security risks. It only takes a small misconfiguration to cause a data breach leading to a bad situation for the company. Microsoft has taken security seriously with the Azure platform and there are many services that both protect your data and advise best-practice configurations. In this article we’ll learn a little bit about Azure Trust Center, Compliance Programs, Azure Active Directory, MFA or multi-factor authentication, Azure Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Firewall, Azure Policies, and more.…

There is a myriad of ways to manage and control resources in the Azure cloud. The most common way to do this is by simply visiting the Azure Portal which can be found at https://portal.azure.com. In addition to the graphical user interface offered at the Azure Portal, we have the ability to manage and interact with Azure via Azure Powershell, Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), Azure Cloud Shell, and the Azure Mobile Application available on iOS and Android platforms.…

Azure DevOps Services is an umbrella term for a collection of modern application development services. These services are designed to help plan smarter, collaborate faster, and ship applications with confidence. With Azure DevOps, software developers and DevOps Experts can set up Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines, collaborate via GIT source control tracking, and find bugs early with advanced testing. Some of the key DevOps services include Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure Artifacts, and Azure DevTest Labs.…

What is Serverless? Serverless is a term in cloud computing that describes when the underlying servers, infrastructure, and operating systems, are taken care of by a cloud service provider. The client only needs to worry about writing code for an application. Serverless in Azure is very robust and offers the same highly available, scalable, and cost-effective experience as other approaches to cloud computing. For example the Azure Container Instances can be thought of as a serverless offering.…