Azure Blueprints
A service that packages policies, role assignments, and ARM templates into a repeatable environment definition.
Azure Blueprints lets organizations define a repeatable package of Azure resources — ARM templates, Azure Policy assignments, role assignments (RBAC), and resource groups — and deploy them together as a single versioned artifact. This makes standing up a new subscription that already meets corporate governance standards straightforward. The key exam distinction: Azure Policy enforces rules on new or existing resources, while Blueprints orchestrates the initial deployment of a governed environment that can include those policies. Blueprints also retain the connection between the definition and the subscriptions deployed from it, helping track configuration drift — something ARM templates alone do not provide.
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