{"id":1571,"date":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/simplifying-your-environment-setup-while-meeting-compliance-needs-with-built-in-azure-blueprints"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:39:34","slug":"simplifying-your-environment-setup-while-meeting-compliance-needs-with-built-in-azure-blueprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/simplifying-your-environment-setup-while-meeting-compliance-needs-with-built-in-azure-blueprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying your environment setup while meeting compliance needs with built-in Azure Blueprints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m excited to announce the release of our first Azure Blueprint built specifically for a compliance standard, the ISO 27001 Shared Services<\/strong><\/a> blueprint sample which maps a set of foundational Azure infrastructure, such as virtual networks and policies, to specific ISO controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Azure leads the industry with over 90 compliance offerings. Azure meets a broad set of international and industry-specific compliance standards, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, SOC 1 and SOC 2, as well as country-specific standards, including FedRAMP and other NIST 800-53 derived standards, Australia IRAP, UK G-Cloud, and Singapore MTCS. Many of our customers have expressed their interest in being able to leverage and build upon our internal compliance practices for their environments with a service that maps compliance settings automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help our customers simplify the creation of their environments in Azure while successfully interpreting US and international governance requirements, we are announcing a series of built-in Blueprints Architectures that can be leveraged during your cloud-adoption journey. Azure Blueprints<\/strong><\/a> is a free service that helps customers deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, deployment templates, and role-based access controls. This service is built to help customers set up governed Azure environments and can scale to support production implementations for large-scale migrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ISO 27001 Shared Services Blueprint is already available to your Azure tenant. Simply navigate to the Blueprints page, click \u201cCreate blueprint\u201d, and choose the ISO27001 Shared Services blueprint from the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ISO 27001 blueprint is designed to help you deploy production ready, secure end-to-end solutions in one click<\/strong> and includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n