Management & Governance


Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions to improve the performance, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of your Azure resources.

Azure Alerts and Action Groups

Azure Alerts and Action Groups enable you to monitor and respond to critical conditions across your Azure resources. They help you create and manage alerts and automate actions in response to those alerts, ensuring your applications and services are running smoothly.

Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights is a monitoring service that helps you understand the performance and usage of your applications. It provides deep diagnostics, detects and diagnoses issues, and analyzes application usage patterns to improve the overall performance and user experience.

Azure Blueprints

Azure Blueprints is a service that enables cloud architects and central IT groups to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that adhere to an organization’s standards, patterns, and requirements. It simplifies the deployment of compliant environments by packaging artifacts such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, role-based access control (RBAC), and policies into a single blueprint definition.

Azure Landing Zones

Azure Landing Zones provide a foundational architecture to deploy and manage your Azure environment, ensuring consistency, security, and governance across your resources. They are built based on best practices and offer a scalable approach to deploying Azure services.

Azure Management Groups

Azure Management Groups provide a governance scope above subscriptions, allowing you to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for multiple Azure subscriptions. They help you organize your resources into a hierarchy for unified policy and access management, making it easier to apply governance controls at scale.

Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution that helps you collect, analyze, and respond to telemetry data from your cloud and on-premises environments. It provides insights into the performance and health of your applications and infrastructure, enabling you to maximize availability and performance.

Azure Network Watcher

Azure Network Watcher is a comprehensive network monitoring and diagnostic service that provides tools to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance. It helps you troubleshoot network issues, monitor network security, and optimize network performance.

Azure Policy

Azure Policy helps you manage and enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale. It allows you to create, assign, and manage policies that enforce different rules and effects over your resources, ensuring they stay compliant with your corporate standards.

Azure Resource Locks

Azure Resource Locks help you protect your resources from accidental deletion or modification. By applying locks, you can ensure that critical resources remain secure and unchanged unless explicitly unlocked.

Azure Service Map

Azure Service Map automatically discovers application components on Windows and Linux systems and maps the communication between services, providing detailed insights into dependencies and performance.

Azure Tags

Azure Tags provide a way to organize and categorize Azure resources based on various criteria, enabling efficient resource management and cost tracking.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery solution that helps protect your data and ensure business continuity. It supports application-aware backups, file backups, system backups, and virtual machine backups, making it a versatile tool for comprehensive data protection.


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