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# Azure Policy

## Governance

* Create rules across all your Azure resources
* Evaluate compliance to those rules
* Examples of Built-In Policies:
  * Require SQL Server 12.0
  * Allowed Storage Account SKUs
  * Allowed Locations
  * Allowed Virtual Machine SKUs
  * Apply tag and its default value
  * Not allowed resource types
* Can create custom policies using JSON definition