Microsoft Azure is a private and public cloud platform. You may be familiar with the Azure Services, the developers and the IT professionals use to build, deploy and manage the applications. But How does it work? Azure uses a technology known as virtualization. Virtualization separates the tight coupling between a computer’s CPU and its operating system using an abstraction layer called a Hypervisor. The Hypervisor emulates all the function of a real computer and its CPU in a virtual machine. It can run multiple virtual machines at the same time, and each virtual machine can run any computable operating system such as Windows or Linux. Azure takes this virtualization technology and repeats it on a massive scale in Microsoft data centers throughout the world. Each data center has many racks filled with servers. Each server includes a hypervisor to run multiple virtual machines. A network switch provides connectivity to the servers. On server in each rack runs a special piece of software called a fabric controller. Each fabric controller is connected to another piece of software known as orchestrator. The orchestrator is responsible for managing everything that happens in azure including responding to user requests.  User make request using the orchestrator’s web API. The web API can be called by using many tools including the user interface of the azure portal. When a user makes a request to create a virtual machine, the orchestrator packages everything that’s needed, picks the best server rack, then sends the package and request to the fabric controller. Once the fabric controller has created the virtual machine, the user can connect to it. Azure make it easy for developers and IT professional to be agile when they build, deploy and manage their application and services. But this agility can have unintended consequences, if unauthorized resources are created, or if resources are left running after they’re no longer needed. The solution to this problem is to use Azure’s resources access management tools as part of your organization’s governance program.