It’s time for the Azure Spring Clean. The annual event is organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton to encourage you to look at your Azure subscriptions and see how you could manage it better.
In my contribution for this year, we will look at how you can leverage Azure Copilot to manage your Azure Tenants better.
What Is Azure Copilot Azure Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant, but it is tuned to work with Azure.
I recently delivered a session at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in London around governance in Azure. One of the critical points in this session is that before you try and implement any controls around resources, cost or security you need to have a good understanding of what your Azure estate currently looks like and what resources you are making use of, so you know where to focus your effort.
There is no point spending lots of time implementing policies to restrict which size web apps you can deploy if no one is using them.
Budgets are a feature of the new Azure cost management tool, which is primarily the integration of Cloudyn into the Azure portal. Budgets allow you to set a financial boundary for a subscription or a resource group, which you can monitor through cost management and trigger alerts when you are close to the cost set in your budget.
One thing you cannot do with budgets, and something that many people feel is an obvious requirement, is to stop people spending any more money when they hit the budget.
