Azure Policy Enforces Organizational Standards

• Azure Policy is a service that enforces standard configurations of resources deployed in Azure.
• Azure Policy 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.

Service Overview

Azure Policy is a service that helps customers manage how Azure resources are deployed by their organizations. Azure resources, such as VMs, Web Apps, and databases, are the core components deployed by an organization to perform work using Azure services. Azure has offered limited tools to help organizations centrally specify what resources should be available across the organization, what Azure regions they can be deployed to, and to enforce security standards. Recent improvements to the Azure Policy service could assist with cost controls, consistency of resources, manageability, and security.

Azure Policy (in preview) provides an interface in the Azure portal for administrators to assign and manage policies. Administrators can also view the compliance of existing resources against policies assigned to them and find exceptions at multiple levels.