Azure Security Center cost for stopped VMs

An interesting question came up in a conversation today: How are the costs for Azure Security Center Standard pricing tier calculated for nodes that are stopped?

It is pretty easy: Azure Security Center Standard pricing tier is prorated daily so that only the days where a particular VM was online are counted towards the monthly price.

Cross Subscription Workspace Selection for Azure Security Center

26 April 2018·105 words·1 min

Around Ignite 2017 Azure Security Center was migrated to use Log Analytics as its foundation both for collecting data through the same agent and storing most of its data.

Azure Policy: Mapping Audit Log Events to Policy Objects

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Azure Policy is a great tool to define governance controls in Azure. With addition of the compliance pieces this feature which was part of Azure for quite some time finally had it’s appearance on main stage (deep dive on implementing governance at scale in this video from Ignite 2017 by Joseph Chan and Liz Kim)

Process Monitoring for Linux with Log Analytics & Azure Monitor

27 April 2018·979 words·5 mins

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