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Azure, Data and Security

Cloud Governance

Policy, cost accountability and compliance reporting that keep the cloud estate under control.

Technologies

  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Azure Monitor

Governance is what stops a cloud estate becoming unmanageable in year three. We define the standards, encode them as policy, and report compliance and cost to named owners on a fixed cadence.

Business outcomes

Enforced standards

Policy as code rather than documented intent.

Cost accountability

Spend attributed to owners with budgets and alerts.

Audit readiness

Compliance evidence produced continuously.

Capabilities

Policy framework

Standards, exception process and policy-as-code implementation.

Cost management

Tagging, showback, budgets and optimisation reviews.

Compliance reporting

Continuous evidence against control sets.

Governance cadence

Forum, metrics and decision records.

How we deliver it

  1. Assess

    Estate discovery, dependency mapping, criticality and readiness.

  2. Design

    Landing zone, network, identity, policy, cost model and operating cadence.

  3. Build

    Infrastructure as code with policy applied from the first deployment.

  4. Migrate

    Waves sequenced by risk, each rehearsed with a rollback path.

  5. Operate

    Monitoring, cost review, compliance reporting and a platform backlog.

Next step

Considering Cloud Governance?

We will give you an honest view of the effort involved, the prerequisites and the risks, before anyone signs anything.

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