# Azure Policy

* Create, assign, and, manage policies in JSON format.\\

* Policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service-level agreements (SLAs).\\

* Runs evaluations of your resources and scans for those not compliant with the policies you have created.\\

* Select between built-in policies and custom policies.\\

* Scope - Determines what resources or grouping of resources the policy assignment applies to.\\

* For example, you can have a policy to allow only a certain stock keeping unit (SKU) size of virtual machines (VMs) in your environment. Once you implement this policy, it will evaluate resources when you create new ones or update existing ones. It will also evaluate your existing resources.
