The Bill Has a Plot Twist

The situation

The campaign ended a fortnight ago. Everyone expected the cloud bill to drop back to baseline. Instead it went up. Leo wants to know why before the finance review on Friday. Priya's first look shows preview and staging resources from the campaign still running — and nothing in the campaign resource group is tagged, so no one can say whose they are or what they cost.

What you'll learn

• AZ-900 management and governance: cost drivers, tags, budgets and budget alerts, the difference between Cost analysis, Advisor, Service Health and Monitor, governance through policy, and infrastructure as code (deployment templates).
• Choosing Azure tools for cost, governance, compliance, management, deployment and monitoring. The programme checkpoint practises three Azure Fundamentals topic areas; external exam conditions and results remain separate.

Who you work with

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  Priya Naidoo

  Cloud Architect

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  Leo Martins

  Product Manager

• 8-BIT

  Code Nexus Internal AI Assistant

Scenes

1. 1.It went up?
2. 2.Read the breakdown
3. 3.Tag, budget, clean up
4. 4.Which tool?
5. 5.Cheaper without breaking it
6. 6.Keep it cheap after the resize
7. 7.Azure Fundamentals practice checkpoint

What you leave with

You attributed the supplied costs, set a monitored budget target, deleted the two approved simulated previews and right-sized the lab app while preserving uploads and its private route. The fixture reports a reduced estimate; it does not establish a production spending cap, zero downtime or absence of data risk.