Identity: Subscriptions Flashcards
Obtaining A subscription: Enterprise Agreements
Any Enterprise Agreement customer can add Azure to their agreement by making an upfront monetary commitment to Azure
Obtaining a subscription: Reseller
Buy Azure through the Open Licensing program, which provides a simple, flexible way to purchase cloud services from your Microsoft reseller
Obtaining a subscription: Partners
Find a Microsoft partner who can design and implement your Azure cloud solution.
Azure Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) subscription
charges the user monthly for the services used in that billing period. Suitable for a wide range of users (individuals, small business and many large organizations as well)
Azure Policy Benefits: Enforcement and Compliance
Turn on built-in policies or build custom ones for all resource types.
Real-time policy evaluation and enforcement.
Periodic and on-demand compliance evaluation.
Azure Policy Benefits: Apply policies at scale
Apply policies to a Management Group with control across your entire organization
Apply multiple policies and aggregate policy states with policy initiative
Azure Policy Benefits: Remediation
Real-time remediation, and remediation on existing resources.
Azure Policy: A Policy Definition
expresses what to evaluate and what actions to take.
e.g. prevent VMS from being deployed if they are exposed to a public IP address.
Azure Policy: An Initiative Definition is…
is a set of Policy Definitions to help track your compliance state for a larger goal.
Azure Policy: Scoping an Initiative Defintion
You can limit the scope of an Initiative Definition to Management Groups, Subscriptions or Resource Groups.
Azure Policy: times or events that cause a resource to be evaluated
A resource is created or updated in a scope with a policy assignment.
A policy or initiative is newly assigned to a scope.
A policy or initiative already assigned to a scope is updated.
During the standard compliance evaluation cycle, which occurs once every 24 hours.
