Layer 1: Governance & Cost Control
Foundation — must exist before any workload deployment.
Azure Budgets
70% + 100% alerts
Azure Policy
5+ policies enforced
RBAC
Owner, Reader, Custom
Layer 2: Network Security & Routing
100% outbound traffic through centralized inspection.
Hub VNet
10.0.0.0/16
Spoke A
10.1.0.0/16
Spoke B
10.2.0.0/16
Firewall
UDR 0.0.0.0/0
Layer 3: Monitoring & Observability
Every resource reports to Log Analytics. KQL-powered analysis.
Log Analytics
Central workspace
4 KQL Queries
Reusable monitoring
Diagnostics
NSG, Storage, FW
Layer 4: Resilience & Disaster Recovery
3-tier backup retention. Cross-region failover tested. Zero downtime.
7-day Snapshots
Instant recovery
30-day Daily
Standard retention
6-month LTR
Compliance ready
Governance → Networking → Monitoring → Resilience
Each layer builds on the previous. Skip governance and networking breaks. Skip monitoring and incidents go undetected. Skip resilience and recovery becomes impossible.
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