Bastion Is Your Secure Jump Host — Harden It Properly Azure Bastion provides secure RDP and SSH access to virtual machines without exposing them to the public internet. However, Bastion itself needs hardening — its subnet requires specific NSG rules,…
Month: November 2025
Compare Month-Over-Month Azure Cost Usage: A Practical Azure FinOps Guide
The Power of Comparison in Cost Management A single month of Azure spending data tells you what happened. Two months compared side by side tell you what changed. Month-over-month comparison is the most practical form of cost analysis because it…
How to build a centralized Azure cost reporting solution
Why Centralized Cost Reporting Matters In organizations with dozens or hundreds of Azure subscriptions, cost data is naturally fragmented across billing accounts, management groups, and individual subscription scopes. Without a centralized reporting solution, finance teams manually gather spreadsheets, engineering leads…