Azure Management and Governance
Managing cost and staying compliant: cost tools, governance with Policy and locks, identity with Entra ID, and monitoring.
Cost management: factors that affect cost include resource type, consumption, region, and networking. Tools include the Pricing Calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator (for planning), Microsoft Cost Management (for analyzing and controlling spend), budgets and alerts, and tags for cost allocation.
Governance: Azure Policy enforces organizational rules (e.g., allowed regions or required tags), resource locks prevent accidental deletion or modification, and the Microsoft Purview / Service Trust Portal and Azure Blueprints support compliance at scale.
Which tool would you use to enforce that all resources carry a required cost-center tag?
What prevents a critical resource from being accidentally deleted?