# AZ-104 - Governance and Compliance - Building a cloud governance strategy wth Azure tooling

[Building Cloud Governance](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/describe-azure-management-governance/)

**Define Governance**

- Rules
- Policies
- Compliance standards
- Control over resources
- Enforce rules, policies, and standard

Planing a Cloud Strategy

- Define: Define cloud governance needs of he organization.
- Plan: Plan which tools will be used to implement governance.
- Ready: understand how those tools will be used to implement governance.
- Adopt: Implement governance for the organization using a cloud strategy.

Governance Services

- Management groups and subscriptions: Organize subscriptions into hierarchical structures.
- Azure RBAC: Provide resources at varying scopes.
- Policies: Implement policies to enforce standards.
- Locks and Tagging: Lock resources to prevent deletion and tag resources to categorize.

Recommended to investigate more about Azure Blueprints to better understand rules and policies.

[Azure Blueprints](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/blueprints/overview)

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