Generally, governance is an act or process of governing or overseeing the control and direction of something (such as a country or an organization). With ever-growing cloud consumption, cloud governance is essential to oversee the control and usage of cloud environments. For Microsoft Azure, several governance constructs can be utilized, including Azure Management Groups, Subscriptions, ... Read more ..read more

If you have an AWS environment and have been using Azure Active Directory(AAD) as your identity store, you would have utilized AWS Single Sign-on to sign in your users into AWS.  With AWS SSO enabled, whenever a user elevates permissions in Azure AD, it can take up to 40 minutes to synchronize permissions to AWS. ... Read more ..read more

This post is a part of Azure Spring Clean which is a community event focused on Azure management topics from March 22-25, 2021. Many thanks to Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton for organizing this event and allowing me to contribute. In this blog post, I will share how you can manage your Azure spend using Azure Cost Management. Cost is always a critical factor in your organization’s success in all areas including the public cloud. Microsoft Azure (like any other public ..read more

It is the time of the year to step back, reflect on the past glories and plan for the future. What a year 2020 has been! It has certainly not been a normal year. From conducting user group meetings to speaking at conferences and receiving my first MVP award, the year has been one of the craziest for me personally. And the pandemic just added to the craziness. Here is a short recap of what ..read more

This blog post is part of an online event “Azure Back to School” run by my friend and Microsoft Azure MVP Dwayne Natwick. In this blog post, I am going to talk about Azure monitor, what it does, and how you can use it in your Azure-based solutions. What is ..read more

I have presented on “Azure Governance – 101” in Omaha Azure User Group on August 19th, 2020. I have covered the basics of Azure Governance. I have covered: Azure resource Hierarchy and scopes Azure Management Groups / Subscriptions / Resource Groups Azure Blueprints and Azure Policies Azure Role-based Access Control ..read more

I have presented on the Multi-stage YAML pipeline with Azure DevOps at Omaha Azure DevOps Meetup. Here is the recording of the same ..read more

In this blog post, I will walk through how to create a logic app in Visual Studio 2019 and deploy it through Azure DevOps using YAML pipelines: Prerequisite – You need to install “Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019” extension in Visual Studio 2019: Step 1: Create a ..read more

Azure Budgets offers a great way to plan and drive accountability towards the Azure costs. Azure Budgets allow you to set a threshold value for your Azure environment and helps in proactively manage costs. You can also set alerts on top of the budgets using Azure Action Groups. A budget ..read more

While going through my twitter feed (sometime last week), I came across a tweet by Chris Pietschmann about his blog being listed as the top Microsoft Azure blog to follow in 2020. It sounded interesting to me. When I did some digging, I came across Feedspot’s list of top 50 ..read more