As organizations scale in Azure, manual control over configurations and compliance becomes impossible. Governance is the architecture layer that ensures security, compliance, and consistency across subscriptions and teams. Microsoft provides three core building blocks for governance — Management Groups, Azure Policy, and Blueprints — which together form a hierarchy of control. This guide explains how…
For most Azure architects, controlling cloud spend is no longer a finance function — it’s a design principle. The shift to OPEX means every decision around redundancy, scaling, and storage impacts the bottom line. Cost optimization is about maintaining performance and resilience while spending intelligently. This playbook shows how to design with cost awareness baked…
Designing secure Azure solutions isn’t just about enabling Defender or turning on encryption. True security architecture is about consistent design patterns that reduce attack surface, isolate workloads, and enforce least privilege across the cloud estate. As Azure evolves, solution architects must understand these patterns deeply enough to apply them automatically when designing new workloads or…
