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8 dimensions, 16 statements, 5 minutes. Calibrated against what actually goes wrong in production AI deployments.
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AI Cost & ROI
PTU vs PAYG with real utilization math. Marketplace billing traps that drained $1,600 in startup credits. Honest cost frameworks.
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AI Governance That Ships
Six operational components. ISO 42001 alignment. EU AI Act August 2026 readiness. Microsoft Purview, Entra, Foundry, Sentinel mapped to controls.
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Six clusters. Six audiences. One stack.
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Agents fail on ownership, not model quality. The agent product owner role is the named accountability that makes production deployment defensible on Azure.
Beyond Spend Caps: Engineering AI Cost Governance for Azure's LLM Workloads
Spend caps tell you when you've already lost. Real AI cost governance on Azure is an architecture you commit at design time - observability, routing, procurement, and CI/CD enforcement.
An AI Governance Framework on Microsoft Azure That Actually Works
Most Microsoft Azure AI governance lives in documents auditors see through. Here is an AI governance framework where a mandatory gateway turns compliance into runtime architecture.
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Azure SDK Release (May 2026)
Revision note (meta, not part of the article): I do not have the actual May 2026 release-notes content, and the persona rules hard-fail on unsourced version
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