Chapter 5

Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features

We’ve talked a lot about security, but when it comes to moving to the cloud, security isn’t the only major concern companies have. They also want to have control over how resources are used, and they want to ensure that data is kept private after it’s in the cloud provider’s ecosystem. Also, many businesses are required to comply with regulations and standards, and by moving to the cloud, they’re offloading some of that responsibility to the cloud provider. Therefore, they want to ensure a high level of confidence that the cloud provider is keeping them compliant.

Microsoft takes all these concerns seriously, and they provide powerful tools in Azure to meet their customers’ ...

Get Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.