Overview of Azure policy

Azure policy allows users to control and govern their resources at scale. It consists of three main pillars: enforcement and compliance, which ensures that standards are enforced; compliance reporting, which evaluates the compliance of resources; and remediation and automation, which allows for automatic remediation of resources. Policy sits at the front door of Azure Resource Manager and monitors requests to ensure compliance. It can modify requests, provide audit reports, and even deny actions like resource deletion. New features, such as deny action and selectors, are being introduced to enhance safe deployment and versioning of policy definitions. Improvements in latency and simplification of the policy experience are also in progress.