Imagine you're a platform engineer in a global company where AKS usage is growing fast across multiple teams. With rising cloud spend and no clear guardrails, the organization struggles to control costs and ensure consistent, secure deployments. As a platform engineer with a FinOps mindset, you're tasked with making AKS cost-efficient, scalable, and compliant. This course will help you implement autoscaling, intelligent resource allocation, and monitoring to optimize costs, while also applying AKS deployment Safeguards and Azure Policy to enforce governance, improve security, and meet organizational standards.