Governance and cost management is one of the top priorities for companies moving to the cloud. Having an Azure subscription with pay-as-you-go can harm the company budget because anyone having access to the subscription can provision as many resources they feel like. Some resources are free while others are expensive. It is important for organizations to keep control on their cloud costs. Tags help in generating billing reports. These reports could be based on departments or projects, or owners or any other criteria deemed fit. While cost is important, governance is equally important. Azure provides locks, policies, and RBAC to formulate governance. Policies ensure that resource operations can be denied or audited, locks ensure that resources cannot be modified or deleted, and RBAC ensures that employees have optimal permissions for performing their jobs. With all these four features, companies can have sound governance and cost control on their Azure deployments.

DevOps on Azure will the focus on next chapter in which some of its important concepts and implementation techniques will be discussed.