What's Inside
A practitioner-level guide to Azure cost governance for enterprise EA customers. Written from 500+ advisory engagements managing $2.1B in Microsoft spend.
7
Chapters
28–35%
Typical waste recovery
500+
Engagements
Chapter Outline
- Azure FinOps Governance Architecture — the four-layer framework
- EA Enrollment Hierarchy Design — departments, accounts, subscriptions
- Budget Architecture and Alert Engineering — tiered alerts, forecast alerting, Action Groups
- Azure Tagging for Cost Attribution — minimum viable tag sets, Policy enforcement, chargeback
- Azure Advisor Optimisation — reading recommendations accurately, validation framework
- MACC Management and FinOps Alignment — burn-rate tracking, renegotiation triggers
- Azure FinOps Negotiation Levers — reservation discounts, rate card pressure, MACC extension
You will also receive access to the Azure FinOps article cluster with deep-dive guidance for each chapter topic — no upsell, no vendor referral programme.
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