One of the most common challenges with Azure?

## Grant McGregor ##### Apr 04, 2025 (0:00:53) Doug explains how Azure environments can quickly become difficult to manage, especially when resources are added over time without clear visibility or cost control. "You end up with a lot of infrastructure… and start thinking, I don’t remember creating that, and what’s that associated with?" #grantmcgregor #microsoft #cloudservices #cloudsolutions #cloudstorage #cloudstrategy #azure #microsoftazure #cloudcomputing ### Transcript {ts:0} One of the biggest pain points with {ts:1} Azure is growth and keeping track of what's in your Azure and understanding {ts:6} what it does. It's quite common for {ts:8} Azure to grow and add more and more resources all the time and not keep {ts:12} track of what all of these things are {ts:13} for and how they're connected and what they do. The other being uh cost {ts:17} management. The invoicing that you get {ts:18} through from Microsoft or some other providers is not always the clearest. {ts:22} It's quite complex. You can add more and {ts:25} more to Azure all the time, but the thing to keep in mind is that most of {ts:27} these things have a cost associated with {ts:29} them. So if you do that a few hundred times, you end up with a lot of {ts:33} infrastructure and you start thinking, I {ts:35} don't remember creating that and what's that associated with? Keeping track of {ts:38} that is uh is challenging and also