{"id":9168,"date":"2024-04-09T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboveit.fi\/azure-cloud-governance-model\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:03:30","slug":"azure-cloud-governance-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboveit.fi\/en\/azure-cloud-governance-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Cloud Governance Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For most companies, the Azure public cloud is a multi-vendor environment. While IT typically maintains the core parts of Azure (and some key business-supporting services), there is often a partner in the environment providing, for example, Data Warehouse solutions and another handling the integration platform\u2014not to mention a third! All of this needs to be kept under control, ensuring that partners have the necessary resources. Service continuity should also be ensured, while understanding how to manage cost structures and security effectively.<\/em> A well-designed Azure Governance Model assists IT in this.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Responsibility on the Listener?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Azure, like all public cloud services, consists of resources billed based on usage. Since your IT department owns the Azure subscriptions where services and resources are deployed, you are ultimately responsible for the security of the resources in the Azure environment\u2014and most importantly, you receive all the bills for approval. However, since you are not alone in managing the resources, an important question quickly arises: who is responsible at any given moment? <\/p>\n

One of the most important aspects of the governance model is to define responsibilities and describe collaboration processes in the public cloud domain.<\/p>\n

The role of IT is to provide partners with frameworks and guidelines within which they should primarily operate. At the same time, partners should be challenged to engage in dialogue to enable sensible collaboration within the defined frameworks. If the dialogue does not work, a partner may establish resources according to their own views\u2014which may lead to unreasonable costs. Security or continuity might not even be considered, despite your IT department’s guidelines. Responsibility and discussion are needed. IT should support partners by wisely guiding their actions. The Azure Governance Model serves as a playbook to ensure that all stakeholders can operate correctly in the same environment. The governance model acts as a guideline when a new application provider begins to implement their application as a service supporting your business. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is defined in the governance model?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Defining a common playbook, guidelines, and responsibilities is important. However, the Azure Governance Model, familiarly known as the “Governance Model,” is above all a technical description within which the Azure environment is managed. It defines, among other things, <\/p>\n