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articles/governance/policy/overview.md

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title: Overview of Azure Policy
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description: Azure Policy is a service in Azure, that you use to create, assign and, manage policy definitions in your Azure environment.
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ms.date: 11/28/2022
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ms.date: 12/02/2022
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ms.topic: overview
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ms.author: timwarner
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author: timwarner-msft
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regulatory compliance, security, cost, and management. Policy definitions for these common use cases
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are already available in your Azure environment as built-ins to help you get started.
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Specifically, some useful governance actions you can enforce with Azure Policy include:
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- Ensuring your team deploys Azure resources only to allowed regions
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- Enforcing the consistent application of taxonomic tags
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- Requiring resources to send diagnostic logs to a Log Analytics workspace
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It's important to recognize that with the introduction of [Azure Arc](../../azure-arc/overview.md), you can extend your
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policy-based governance across different cloud providers and even to your local datacenters.
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All Azure Policy data and objects are encrypted at rest. For more information, see
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[Azure data encryption at rest](../../security/fundamentals/encryption-atrest.md).
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