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Azure Policy

Azure Policy enforces organizational standards and compliance at scale across Azure resources.

What is Azure Policy?

Azure Policy is a service for creating, assigning, and managing policies that enforce rules and effects over resources, ensuring they stay compliant with corporate standards.

Policy effects

Deny, Audit, Append, Modify, DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists.

Common misconceptions

  • "Policies are just alerts" — Can enforce and remediate
  • "Policies slow deployment" — Evaluation is fast
  • "Built-in policies are enough" — Custom policies often needed