Azure governance – components and services

Azure governance refers to the set of practices, policies, and technologies that organizations use to manage their Azure resources and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. It includes several components and services that provide centralized management, control, and monitoring of Azure resources. The key components of Azure Governance include Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, Azure management groups, and Azure Resource Manager. Let’s understand each of these components.

Management groups

Let's imagine SpringToys has multiple departments, each with its own Azure subscription. In this case, SpringToys’ IT Team can leverage Azure management groups to manage and organize various subscriptions in a hierarchical structure, providing centralized control over access, policies, and compliance.

Every Azure AD tenant is allocated a sole top-level management group known as the root management group. This group...