Azure Policy Enforces Organizational Standards

• Azure Policy is a service that enforces standard configurations of resources deployed in Azure.
• It could help avoid errors in how resources are deployed, control costs, and tighten security.
• Administrators will have a hard time predicting the effects of Azure policies with current tools.

Azure Policy is a service that helps set and maintain standards for how Azure services and resources can be used within an organization’s Azure tenancy.

Service Overview

Azure resources, such as VMs, Web Apps, and databases, are service instances used to perform work within Azure. Azure has offered limited tools to centrally control what resources can be used across the organization, what Azure regions they can be deployed to, and security standards.

Azure Policy, generally available since July 2018, provides user interfaces in the Azure portal to create, assign, and manage policies. Administrators can also view the compliance of existing resources against policies assigned to them and find exceptions at multiple levels.