Azure Lighthouse: A Unified Management Experience for Your Azure Resources

Service providers can manage Azure resources across numerous tenants and subscriptions using Azure Lighthouse. It is a management tool that enables service providers to simplify their administrative procedures, cut expenses, and enhance the customer experience.

Azure lighthouse features

• Multi-tenant management: In order to manage Azure resources for all of their clients, service providers can use Azure Lighthouse, which offers a single interface for managing resources across numerous tenants.
• Role-based access control (RBAC): Azure Lighthouse offers a secure and granular level of access control by enabling service providers to allocate roles and rights to particular people, groups, or apps across multiple tenants.
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates: Through the application of Azure Lighthouse, service providers can quickly and consistently deploy ARM templates across multiple tenants, simplifying the deployment process for all of their customers' environments.
• Azure Policy: Service providers can utilise Azure Lighthouse to deploy Azure Policy across numerous tenants, ensuring that all of their customers' environments comply with legal requirements and corporate guidelines.
• Azure Monitor: Service providers can track the consumption, performance, and health of Azure resources across many tenants due to Azure Lighthouse.

Benefits

• Enhanced security: With the help of Azure Lighthouse, service providers can implement RBAC and Azure Policy across multiple tenants, guaranteeing that all of their customers' environments are safe and in compliance with legal obligations and corporate standards.
• Cost reduction: Azure Lighthouse allows providers to keep track of resource usage across numerous tenants, offering them visibility into usage and facilitating cost reduction.
• Better customer experience: Azure Lighthouse enables service providers to offer their clients a single management experience while streamlining administration and cutting expenses. Customer loyalty and satisfaction increase as a result.
• Streamlined management: Azure Lighthouse gives service providers a single point of control to manage Azure resources for all of their clients. This minimises managerial complexity and boosts productivity.

Azure Lighthouse Use Cases

1. Managed Services Provider (MSP) Scenario

   MSPs are one of the primary use cases for Azure Lighthouse. MSPs can offer a single management experience to their customers using Azure Lighthouse, which will enhance        management and reduce expenses. Companies can use Azure Lighthouse to manage the resources and subscriptions of their users, offer assistance, and keep tabs on how          their environments are doing. MSPs can leverage Azure Lighthouse to provide value-added services, including security, backup, and disaster recovery.

2. Large Enterprises Scenario

Azure Lighthouse is suitable for large companies with several business divisions and subsidiaries to manage their Azure resources centrally. Using Azure Lighthouse, enterprises can ensure that their Azure resources are properly set up, protected, and audited. By providing insights into resource utilisation across all of their subscriptions, Azure Lighthouse assists businesses in cutting down costs associated with using Azure.

3. Government Scenario

Government organisations can use Azure Lighthouse to offer centralised management of Azure resources across several departments and agencies. Government organisations can minimise their Azure expenses, implement security guidelines and compliance standards, and monitor the well-being of their Azure systems by using Azure Lighthouse.

4. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) Scenario

ISVs can use Azure Lighthouse to manage the Azure resources for their clients. ISVs can manage the subscriptions and resources of their clients using Azure Lighthouse; this simplifies management and minimises expenses. ISVs can leverage Azure Lighthouse to provide value-added services like security, backup, and disaster recovery.

Case studies

1. 10th Magnitude

10th Magnitude is a software development company specialising in building and operating custom cloud-based solutions. Their clients need a new online payment processing solution that could be developed quickly and economically. To meet this requirement, 10th Magnitude turned to Microsoft Azure.

With the help of Azure's tools, 10th Magnitude developed a cloud-based solution that utilises Microsoft Azure SQL Database to process transactions. Compared to conventional development techniques, it was able to create the solution 30% more quickly.

 Microsoft Azure's range of tools and services enables developers to build, test, and deploy cloud-based applications quickly and easily. Through streamlining the development process by utilising tools and services, 10th Magnitude was able to assist their customer save money and shift their attention away from worrying about IT expenses towards expanding their business.

2. Finastra

FusionFabric.cloud by Finastra is a cloud-native Platform as a Service (PaaS) development platform that enables collaboration and the creation of innovative financial services apps between banks, fintech companies, independent developers, and academic institutions.

In order to deliver apps quickly, economically, and while using fintech innovation in a comfortable and predictable workflow environment, Finastra began building an ecosystem of development partners. Finastra was able to access a variety of API options by working in a cloud-native environment, and the company chose Azure as its cloud solution partner due to the following reasons:

• API management security features
• Azure offers a hybrid connection so that banks can manage marketplace apps in the cloud while still running their core systems on-premise
• Inbuilt global regulatory and data residency compliance
• Technological prowess.
• Assistance with open-source technology.

By providing companies with a unified management experience and a range of tools and techniques, Azure lighthouse helps companies excel in their field and provide quality products and services.