Policy Initiatives

Initiative definitions

• Set of policy definitions to help track your compliance state for a larger goal.

• Initiative assignments - reduce the need to make several initiative definitions for each scope.

• Once your business rules have been formed, the policy definition or initiative is assigned to any scope of resources that Azure supports, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, or individual resources.

Initiative assignments

• An initiative definition assigned to a specific scope like a policy definition.

• Initiative assignments reduce the need to make several initiative definitions for each scope.

• This scope could also range from a management group to a resource group.