Stand Fast - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
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Governance saves money by forcing concrete actions: inventory and monitor workloads, right‑size resources, and apply guard rails to stop runaway services. Examples include 500 reports with eight duplicates costing five minutes per user to reconcile, an orphaned $10,000/mo data warehouse left running, and choosing Azure Managed Instance for cross‑database scripting despite higher cost. Prepaying reservations cuts 40–50% if a three‑year plan fits, and policy controls prevent huge Spark jobs or misplaced archive storage.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Welcome to Stand Fast
- 1:09Governance as flight map
- 3:58Why governance saves money
- 8:38Hidden costs of no governance
- 10:26Technical drivers of cloud costs
- 13:37People and business cost drivers
- 17:34Leadership and unclear objectives
- 21:32Challenging leadership blind spots
- 23:20Time versus money in cloud
- 24:25Real-time data dreams
- 25:28Automation won't replace people
- 26:53What governance really is
- 28:20Fabric adoption roadmap
- 30:06Inventory estate to cut costs
- 32:11Right-size and monitor everything
- 33:20Stop guessing cloud costs
- 34:23Test before cloud deploy
- 35:30Plan execution to save money
- 36:13Prepay Azure for savings
- 37:40Make doing right easy
- 38:43Choose right tools
- 39:50Training beats technical debt
- 41:37Reduce technical debt
- 43:02Costs start before deploy
- 44:25People are most important
- 45:29Governance enables not polices
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