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Curated learning paths for Azure FinOps, KQL mastery, governance at scale, and operational excellence.
Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs, but nobody's written the Azure admin-specific version. Here's what happens when the person managing 40+ subscriptions explores the AI tools that might eliminate their role.
Microsoft is throwing AI buzzwords everywhere. Power BI Copilot, MCP, AI-powered insights, Fabric with AI. I spent 10 weeks modernizing dashboards with AI. Here's what actually creates visuals vs what just accesses data—and why Azure admins are confused.
CFO asked for Azure costs by department. I found 247 different variations of the same cost center tag. 'Production' spelled 12 ways. Application names in chaos. Here's the tag governance policy that fixed it - and the template you can deploy today.
Deploy a production-realistic Azure Arc demo environment using Private Link for secure hybrid management. Complete Terraform code included - because your CISO won't approve the public internet version.
Real Azure OpenAI pricing breakdown: GPT-4 costs $0.03/1K tokens but hidden hosting fees ($1,224/month), PTU pricing, and infrastructure charges turn $50 pilots into $2,000 monthly bills. Actual cost data from testing across 44 Azure subscriptions.
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