You start with one VPC. Then you add a staging VPC. Then a shared-services VPC. Then three more teams each get their own accounts. Suddenly you have 8 VPCs that all need to talk to each other, and you've created a mesh of 28 VPC peering connections that nobody can draw on a whiteboard anymore. This is where Transit Gateway enters the picture.
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View All TagsAzure Policy and Blueprints — Governance at Scale
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You set up cost alerts. You documented tagging standards. You sent emails. And developers still create VMs in regions you do not operate in, without tags, using sizes that cost more than some people's salaries. Documentation does not enforce rules — Azure Policy does. It evaluates every resource creation and modification in real time, and it can deny, audit, or automatically fix violations before they become your problem.
A team I worked with was paying $14,000/month on AWS. After three weeks of analysis and changes, we brought it down to $5,600. No services were removed, no performance was sacrificed. The problem was never that AWS is expensive — it's that the defaults are expensive, and nobody was watching.
Your Azure bill is climbing, and nobody can explain why. Every team points fingers at another team's subscription. Sound familiar? Azure Cost Management gives you the visibility to trace every dollar back to its source and the tools to stop the bleeding before your finance team loses their mind.
Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining self-service toolchains and workflows that enable developers to ship software faster without filing tickets or waiting on ops teams. If DevOps was about breaking down silos, platform engineering is about building the roads that make the journey smooth.
You have a container image ready to deploy. You want it to scale automatically, handle HTTPS traffic, and cost nothing when idle. You do not want to manage node pools, upgrade Kubernetes versions, or configure ingress controllers. Azure Container Apps gives you the serverless container experience — Kubernetes under the hood, but you never touch the cluster. Deploy your image, define scaling rules, and let Azure handle everything else.