Building a Strategy for Periodic Optimization of Azure Environments - with Eric Bogenschuetz

Building a strategy for periodic optimization of Azure environments with Eric Bogenschuetz. This session was presented at the Global Azure 2022 event. This session includes practical strategies for optimizing 4 key focus areas:
1. Security
2. Cost
3. Performance
4. Supportability/Management

The slide deck can be found here: https://github.com/HarvestingClouds/S...

Sections in this video:
00:00 Overview and Agenda
02:09 Introductions
05:09 Building blocks for a strategy
11:38 Security Optimizations
17:56 Demo - Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
21:39 Demo - Custom Role (RBAC)
26:45 Demo - Soft Delete
27:55 Security Optimizations - continued
30:02 Disable anonymous blob access
31:27 Azure Policy exemptions
33:41 Azure Bastion - Concepts
35:45 Azure Bastion - Demo
38:50 Cost and Performance Optimizations
41:56 Cost Analysis, Cost Budgets and Cost Alerts - Demo
47:08 Cost Analysis - New Features - Demo
51:04 Cost and Performance Optimizations - continued
55:00 Reservations - Demo
56:26 Azure Advisor
57:25 Azure Advisor - Demo
01:05:39 Support and Management Optimizations
01:09:40 Unmonitored resources and Resource Lock - Demo
01:11:46 Support and Management Optimizations - continued
01:15:00 Quotas and Service Limits - Demo
01:17:20 New VM Deletion experience - Demo
01:19:04 Windows Admin Center within Azure - Demo
01:23:49 Template Specs - Demo
01:28:58 Next Steps
01:30:25 References

This session covers these topics and include various demos:
Building blocks of a strategy for optimizations
Leveraging Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Conditional Access
Azure AD Access Reviews
RBAC Control Reviews
Custom Role creation and usage
Enabling Soft Delete
Azure Policy usage and exemptions
Disabling anonymous access on Storage Accounts
Azure Bastion
Cost Analysis
Cost Budget and Cost Alerts
Cost Allocations
Reserved Instances
Azure Advisor (with in-depth demo)
Azure Locks
Finding unmonitored resources
Quotas and Service Limits
Windows Admin Center in Azure
Template Specifications or Template Specs
Many other features