Definition: Azure Policy is a cloud governance service that evaluates Azure resources against organisational business rules (policy definitions), reporting or blocking non-compliant configurations . Source: Azure Last modification: 2026-07-02 Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/dr8/AzurePolicy EIRA concept: eira:SolutionBuildingBlock ABB name: eira:AzurePolicy Synonym: Azure Governance Policy Example: A governance team assigns a built-in Azure Policy initiative that denies deployment of storage accounts Interoperability Saliency: Salient for technical interoperability because it standardises how governance rules are expressed, evaluated and enforced . Interoperability Dimension: Structural IoP Additional identifier: http://data.europa.eu/dr8/AzurePolicy EIF Layer: TechnicalInfrastructure