Managing and optimizing cloud costs at an enterprise scale – often referred to as FinOps (Cloud Financial Management) – involves employing several key patterns and best practices. Azure provides tools (like Cost Management + Billing, Azure Advisor...

Azure Key Vault is Microsoft’s cloud service for secure key management, secret storage, and certificate management. It provides a centralized, secure vault for encryption keys (like RSA, elliptic curve keys), application secrets (API keys...

Azure Private Link allows you to connect to Azure PaaS services (and your own services) via a private endpoint in your Azure virtual network, effectively keeping the traffic entirely on the Azure backbone and off the public Internet. In terms of...

Azure AD Conditional Access is the policy engine in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) that allows organizations to enforce access controls based on conditions such as user, device, location, application, and importantly, sign-in risk. A risk-based...

Azure Network Watcher is a monitoring and diagnostics service for Azure networks that provides deep visibility into network traffic and helps troubleshoot connectivity issues, down to the packet level. It offers a suite of tools ranging from...