Microsoft Azure Cloud Operations Automated in Plain English.
Orchestrate Azure resource management, cost optimization, and incident response with workflows your ops team defines without writing scripts.
Describe It in English.
It Runs Deterministically.
Overview
Scan Azure subscriptions for idle or oversized resources; calculate wasted spend by resource group; auto-rightsize or terminate and report savings to the engineering lead.
Execution Steps
Discover Idle Resources
- Query Azure Monitor for VMs, databases, and storage accounts with utilization below 10% over the past 7 days
- Tag each resource with its owner, cost center, and accumulated spend
Calculate Waste and Recommend
- Sum idle resource costs by subscription and resource group
- Generate rightsizing recommendations based on actual utilization patterns
Execute and Report
- Auto-deallocate non-production idle VMs and scale down oversized database tiers
- Send the engineering lead a weekly savings report with actions taken and projected monthly impact
Enterprise
Use Cases
Cost Optimization
Continuously scan Azure for idle VMs, orphaned disks, and oversized services, then rightsize or terminate them automatically.
Incident Auto-Remediation
Detect Azure alerts, correlate with recent deployments, and execute remediation runbooks in English, escalating only unknown patterns.
Security Posture Management
Audit Azure resource configurations against CIS benchmarks, auto-remediate low-risk findings, and report critical gaps to the security team.
Microsoft Azure automation questions.
What can I automate between Kognitos and Microsoft Azure?
Resource provisioning approvals, cost-anomaly investigations, tag and policy compliance, SQL data reconciliations, Blob Storage document ingestion into AP or claims workflows, and incident response across Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. Kognitos reads Azure state, applies your written cloud-ops policy, and calls Azure APIs deterministically with full audit.
How does Kognitos connect to Microsoft Azure?
Through Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft Graph, and individual service APIs (Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, SQL, Service Bus, Key Vault) using an Entra ID service principal or managed identity. Scopes are least-privilege per subscription and resource group; secrets live in Azure Key Vault and the Kognitos managed secret store.
Which Azure events can trigger a Kognitos automation?
Event Grid notifications (blob created, resource changed, security alert), Service Bus messages, Logic App webhooks, Azure Monitor alerts, and scheduled jobs. Kognitos can also poll storage accounts for new documents to process.
Is the Microsoft Azure integration secure and compliant?
Yes. Kognitos is SOC 2 Type II, supports private networking (VNet peering, Private Link options on request), encrypts data in transit and at rest, and logs every API call against Azure with the originating rule for SoX, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 evidence.
How do I get started automating Microsoft Azure with Kognitos?
Book a demo. We'll help you create a least-privilege service principal in your Azure tenant and ship a working automation (cost anomaly triage, tag compliance, or document ingestion from Blob Storage) written in plain English in the first session.
