Azure Policy

An Azure Policy is a service in Microsoft Azure that allows organizations to enforce and maintain compliance with corporate standards and regulatory requirements across their Azure environment. Azure policies are a set of rules and guidelines that define allowed or disallowed configurations for resources in Azure subscriptions. These policies can enforce requirements related to security, compliance, governance, and management.

Azure policies are typically defined using JSON-based policy definitions, which specify conditions, effects, and other parameters for governing resource configurations. When applied, Azure policies evaluate resources in the Azure environment and take actions such as enforcing compliance, remediation, or auditing based on the defined rules. Overall, Azure policies help organizations ensure consistency, security, and compliance in their Azure deployments.

• Built-in definitions include stipulations such as restricting the kinds of resources that can be deployed and mandating the application of tags to all available resources.

• We also have the option of creating our personalized policy definitions.