Azure governance methodologies, monitoring and reporting

- [Instructor] Knowing how to exercise authority … and control over your cloud services is critical. … This is closely followed by monitoring and reporting … to be sure that everything is compliant. … We're going to start this lesson … by reviewing Azure governance methodologies. … And one of my favorite governance features … is Azure policies. … Azure policies enforce rules over Azure resources, … ensuring that the resources are compliant. … For example, … we can create a policy … that will only allow a virtual machine to created … in a specific reason … or the virtual machine can only be created … using a specific size. … Applying a bunch of single policies … to a resource is cumbersome, … so to make it easier, Microsoft has initiatives, … which are a group of policies … that are managed as a single unit. … This reduces the complexity of managing multiple policies. … And you can create customized initiatives … for resources by combining policies. … And you'll notice here in our example, …