Understanding Azure Policies
Azure Policy is a mechanism for effecting organizational compliance on the Azure platform. The service allows aggregated views to understand the overall state of an environment, with the ability to view resource-level granularity for compliance. All this can be viewed on the compliance dashboard as part of the Policy service. Remediation can be applied automatically and through bulk operations.
The following screenshot gives an overview of Azure Policy service for an organization:
Figure 4.1: Azure Policy example
As you will observe, this is where you will create and manage policies, as well as get an overview of compliance for policies that you have implemented in Azure. Azure Policy enables users to define, implement, and monitor policies for their Azure resources to ensure they meet specific standards and regulations. Azure Policy helps maintain consistency across the entire cloud environment, improve security posture...
