Optimize AKS Cost and Governance

Optimize and govern your AKS environment. This course teaches platform engineers and FinOps practitioners how to reduce costs with autoscaling and monitoring, and to enforce secure, compliant deployments using Azure Policy.

What you'll learn

Managing Kubernetes at scale comes with real-world challenges, rising infrastructure costs, inconsistent configurations, and a lack of unified governance. Platform engineers and FinOps teams need strategies that balance performance, cost, and compliance across growing AKS environments.

In this course, Optimize AKS Cost and Governance, you’ll learn to reduce AKS costs and enforce secure, compliant deployments using Azure-native tools.

First, you’ll explore how to analyze AKS cost drivers and implement resource allocation strategies using intelligent node pools and Kubernetes autoscaling.

Next, you’ll discover how to configure monitoring and reporting with Azure Monitor and the AKS Cost Analysis add-on to track resource utilization and cost anomalies in real time.

Finally, you’ll learn how to enforce deployment safeguards using Azure Policy and the AKS policy add-on, including built-in compliance rules, pod security standards, and image integrity validation.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to optimize costs, improve governance, and run scalable, secure AKS environments with confidence.