In today’s cloud environments, a single line of code can provision (or accidentally delete) an entire application landscape or critical infrastructure. This level of agility requires us to rethink traditional approaches about resource management and adopt new governance paradigms that enable organizations to provision, operate, and secure cloud workloads at scale.

This is where Azure Governance becomes essential. Organizations need clear guardrails to enforce compliance, reduce misconfigurations, and ensure secure and consistent deployments across their Azure tenant.

In this session, we will walk through a real-world Azure scenario and demonstrate which governance capabilities must be considered, to keep cloud workloads compliant, secure, and manageable.

The session will explore key Azure management areas, including:
- Structuring management hierarchies effectively.
- Establishing and enforcing naming conventions.
- Enforcing configurations through Azure Policy.
- Implementing role-based access control (RBAC).
- Tracking costs and managing budget alerts.
- Applying tagging and resource locking strategies.
- Deploying Azure Governance capabilities using Terraform.

Attendees will gain practical insights into frameworks, tools, and proven best practices for implementing governance in Azure efficiently and sustainably. The session also demonstrates how governance can be deployed and maintained using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach to enable scalability, consistency, and automation.

In modern cloud environments, a single line of code can deploy (or accidentally remove) critical infrastructure. Effective governance is essential to ensure security, compliance, and consistency at scale. This session uses a real-world Azure scenario to show how governance guardrails can be implemented through management hierarchies, Azure policy, RBAC, cost control, tagging, and Terraform-based automation. Attendees will gain practical insights and best practices for implementing scalable Azure Governance.