Managing Azure VM SKUs and Compliance with Azure Policy

Cloud environments can quickly become disorganized and expensive without proper governance. Managing virtual machine sizes and ensuring data encryption are critical steps in maintaining a secure, cost-effective cloud footprint. This text-based course guides you from cloud governance fundamentals to writing your first custom policy rules. You will understand how to automatically restrict expensive virtual machine sizes (SKUs) and enforce encryption across your cloud infrastructure, aligning your deployments with corporate compliance standards. What you will learn: 1. Understand the core concepts of cloud governance and policy-as-code. 2. Create Azure policies to restrict virtual machine sizes and control costs. 3. Enforce storage and disk encryption standards automatically across your resources. 4. Analyze compliance reports to identify and remediate non-compliant virtual machines. 5. Integrate policy definitions into modern infrastructure-as-code workflows. 6. Apply best practices for testing governance rules safely. You will start by exploring essential terminology and the architecture of policy-as-code. Then, you will progress through step-by-step written explanations to construct, test, and audit compliance rules for virtual machines. This course is designed for beginner cloud administrators, security enthusiasts, and DevOps newcomers who want to learn governance basics. No prior policy-writing experience is required. Start reading today to master cloud compliance and keep your virtual infrastructure secure and budget-friendly.