Azure Compliance

Compliance in Azure involves ensuring that your cloud resources and operations adhere to various regulatory, security, and organizational standards and requirements. It helps organizations meet industry-specific regulations and maintain security policies.

Azure Policy

Azure Policy is a service that helps you manage and enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale. Key features include:

• Policy Definitions: Create policies to enforce rules and effects for your resources.

• Compliance Assessment: Continuously monitors and reports on compliance across your resources.

• Remediation: Automatically applies required changes to non-compliant resources.

• Integration: Works with other Azure services to provide a comprehensive compliance solution.

Azure Blueprints

Azure Blueprints enables you to define and deploy a repeatable set of Azure resources and policies that adhere to your organization’s standards, patterns, and requirements. Key features include:

• Blueprint Definitions: Create templates that include Azure resources, policies, role assignments, and resource groups.

• Versioning: Maintain and manage different versions of your blueprints.

• Deployment: Easily deploy consistent environments across your organization.

• Compliance: Ensure deployments meet regulatory and organizational standards.

Summary

• Azure Policy: Enforces rules and monitors compliance with policies across your Azure resources.

• Azure Blueprints: Defines and deploys repeatable Azure environments that meet organizational and regulatory standards.

Together, these tools help ensure that your Azure resources are compliant with necessary standards and regulations.