Architecture · 2-3 weeks
Azure governance and policy baseline
Once you have more than a couple of Azure subscriptions, ad-hoc management stops working. An Azure governance baseline puts guardrails in place: Azure Policy for security, cost, and tagging; a management group hierarchy; rationalized RBAC; and a repeatable way to stand up new subscriptions.
What's included
- Management group hierarchy aligned to how you actually operate
- Azure Policy assignments: security baselines, allowed regions, tagging, cost guardrails
- RBAC review and cleanup - removing standing owner access and one-off grants
- Resource tagging standard with enforcement and remediation tasks
- Subscription vending pattern for consistent new-subscription setup
- Governance documentation
How we work
Scope
A fixed statement of work: what we will do, what you receive, and the timeline. Agreed before any work starts.
Execute
We do the work in your tenant with least-privilege access, with updates at defined checkpoints - not radio silence.
Hand off
Documentation, runbooks, and a walkthrough so your team can operate what we built.
Azure Governance & Policy Baseline: common questions
Will new policies break running workloads?
No. Policies go in as audit-only first so you can see the impact, then move to enforcement on agreed timelines.
How is this different from the foundation build?
The foundation build is the whole landing zone. This is the governance layer on its own, for estates that already exist but lack structure.
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Talk to a senior architect about azure governance & policy baseline
A short call to understand your environment, then a fixed-scope proposal. Based in Denver, Colorado; we work with clients across the US remotely.