Azure Governance

Overview

Build and scale your applications quickly while maintaining control

Take advantage of built-in and custom policies to set guardrails in your subscriptions. Easily deploy fully governed environments throughout your organization with Azure Blueprints. And, manage costs by gaining insights into your cloud spend so that you get the most from your cloud investments.

Stay compliant with internal and external regulations by configuring your templates using policies, access controls, and resources, and then deploying them. Proactively ensure consistent development environments through policy enforcement. Create an audit trail to identify compliance issues, notify stakeholders, and remediate issues quickly. Manage updates to blueprints through versioning control. Take advantage of the most comprehensive set of compliance offerings, including built-in compliance blueprints including ISO-27001.

Learn how to use Azure Blueprints
Keep your developers focused on building innovative products and services—and not on compliance-related tasks—with self-service provisioning and infrastructure management. Move the compliance process to the beginning of the DevOps lifecycle by using built-in policies.

Control your resources with Azure Policy
Azure governance services are free for Azure subscribers. Create custom dashboards to view and analyze your cloud usage and spend. Increase efficiencies by right sizing your virtual machines and purchasing reserved instances.

Optimize spend with Microsoft Cost Management
Governance is a broad discipline. Learn Microsoft best practices on how to implement your governance strategy and take advantage of the benefits of Azure governance services.

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