Azure Purview– Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Use Azure Purview to help manage and govern your data landscape. You can use this tool with on‐premises, SaaS, Azure, and other cloud service providers. Being able to identify sensitive data and where data has come from, and discovering new data sources are all features of Azure Purview. This tool is focused on your data real estate hosted on Azure. Data Map, Data Catalog, and Data Insights are all capabilities you get via the Azure Purview Studio console.
Your company may have many datastores and databases that need to be monitored not only from an access perspective, but based on what kind of data is stored in each. Azure Purview provides an administrative overview of your data sources. Defining the reason for the data’s existence, what the data’s intended purpose is, the sensitivity classification of the data, and who can access are “need to know” pieces of information. Governance and manageability of your data sources is what this product is all about.
Azure Policy
After an Azure subscription is created and you begin giving rights to others to provision and configure Azure products, there needs to be control. For example, if you have specific locations where your IT must be or must not be, you might contract with a third party that requires their data be stored in a specific country. Or perhaps when an Azure VM is provisioned you need to make sure a monitoring application is installed on it. Maybe you want to restrict the sizes of Azure VMs and allow only specific ports to be opened on VNets. Most restrictions you want to place on the provisioning of Azure resources can be handled through an Azure Policy.
Azure Blueprints (Preview)
A blueprint in general is a computer‐generated or hand‐drawn image of some kind of architecture, in this case, IT architecture. From role assignments and implementing policies to the actual provisioning of Azure resources, the Azure Blueprints feature is a way to orchestrate the deployment of each declaratively.
Azure Lighthouse
There are many customers who run solutions on Azure that are used and/or resold by other companies. Azure Lighthouse supplies tools for governing, controlling scale, and automating the many tasks for managing such an offering.
Azure Cost Management and Billing
There are products on Azure that are very costly. Even having them provisioned for a single day, sitting idle, can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The way you can manage this is by using Azure Cost Management. This toolset lets you set budgets and spending limits and configure alerts when spending is approaching that limit. You can create reports that identify which products are generating the most costs, which can help you control cash flow. One additional feature of this tool is the ability to report the cost on a group of products and features that make up a specific project. This helps you isolate and get more clarity on cost and profits on a per‐project basis.
Other Products
Here are a few additional products and features that are good to know about.
Use Azure Purview to help manage and govern your data landscape. You can use this tool with on‐premises, SaaS, Azure, and other cloud service providers. Being able to identify sensitive data and where data has come from, and discovering new data sources are all features of Azure Purview. This tool is focused on your data…
