Regulatory compliance

• Process of ensuring that you follow the standards or laws laid out by governing bodies
• People and process monitor systems to detect and prevent violations
• Compliance monitoring can be complex
• Azure provides several tools to help us asses our compliance posture

Azure Compliance

• Global compliance: more than 90 compliance offerings
• Industry compliance: over 35 industry specific offerings
• Bluprints: deploy compliant environment
• Proof: Access third party reports
• Azure Security Center: unify security management

Service trust portal and trust center

https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/

Azure Regions

• Azure operates in multiple datacenters around the world
• These datacenters are groups into regions such as Japan East, UK South etc.
• You deploy your resources to a region that matches your requirements
• Azure special regions exist for compliance or legal reasons.

Azure special regions

• USA Gov.
• Germany
• China