Guides
Grouped by subject and numbered in reading order. New to Azure operations? Start at the top.
- Start here
- 01Getting startedAz PowerShell, signing in, working across subscriptions, and Azure Resource Graph.
- Foundations
- 02Structure and accessManagement groups, subscriptions, resource groups, naming, RBAC and resource locks.
- 03Tagging and governance with Azure PolicyA tag strategy finance can use, and Azure Policy to enforce it.
- Security
- 04Network security groups and ASGsNSG rules and priorities, subnet or NIC, service tags, application security groups, and checking what's actually applied.
- 05Firewalls, private endpoints and admin accessOutbound control, Azure Firewall, WAF, DDoS protection, private endpoints, Bastion and just-in-time access.
- 06Security baseline: identity, Defender and Key VaultMFA and privileged access, managed identities, Defender for Cloud, secure score, Key Vault and the logs you need.
- Operations
- 07Virtual machinesSizing, disks, availability, patching, monitoring agents and saving money on VMs.
- 08Backup and recoveryAzure Backup for VMs, protecting backups from ransomware, restores, and Site Recovery.
- 09Monitoring and alertsAzure Monitor building blocks, KQL queries worth keeping, and alerts people act on.
- Cost
- 10Cost hygieneBudgets, the monthly clean-up checklist, reservations and savings plans.