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AI and Machine Learning
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Document Intelligence
Azure AI Document Intelligence is a cloud service that uses OCR and machine learning to extract text, layout, tables, key-value pairs, and fields from documents.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
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Aliases: Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure Document Intelligence, Form Recognizer, intelligent document processing
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Document Intelligence custom model
A Document Intelligence custom model is a trained model built from representative labeled documents to extract fields from organization-specific document types.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: custom extraction model, custom neural model, custom template model, trained custom document model
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document Intelligence layout model
The Document Intelligence layout model is a prebuilt model that extracts document text, tables, selection marks, structure, and layout information without custom training.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
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Aliases: layout model, prebuilt layout model, document layout analysis, layout analysis model
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document Intelligence model
A Document Intelligence model is a prebuilt, custom, composed, or classifier model used to analyze documents and return structured extraction or classification results.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
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Aliases: document model, prebuilt model, custom model, model ID
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document Intelligence resource
A Document Intelligence resource is the Azure AI service resource that provides the endpoint, keys, region, pricing tier, network configuration, and monitoring for Document Intelligence APIs.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Document Intelligence resource, Document Intelligence account, AI service resource, Form Recognizer resource
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document analysis operation
A document analysis operation is an asynchronous Document Intelligence request that analyzes a document with a model and returns extracted content, layout, and fields when polling completes.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Analyze operation, analyze document operation, Document Intelligence analysis request, async analysis operation
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document classifier
A document classifier is a Document Intelligence custom classification model that identifies document types or pages before extraction and routing.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: custom classifier, Document Intelligence classifier, classification model, page classifier
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AI and Machine Learning
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Document field
A document field is a structured value extracted by Document Intelligence, usually with field type, content, confidence, and location metadata in the analyze result.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: extracted field, field value, query field, document result field
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AI and Machine Learning
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Custom document model
an Azure AI Document Intelligence model trained or built for a team’s specific document layout, fields, and extraction needs.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
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Aliases: Document Intelligence custom model, custom extraction model, custom neural document model
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AI and Machine Learning
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ID document model
ID document model is a prebuilt Azure AI Document Intelligence model that extracts fields from identity documents such as passports and driver licenses.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: id document model, ID document model, Identity document model, Prebuilt ID document model, prebuilt-idDocument
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AI and Machine Learning
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Composed document model
an Azure AI Document Intelligence model that combines several custom document models behind one model identifier so different document types can be analyzed together
Document Intelligence
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Prebuilt document model
A prebuilt document model is a ready-made Document Intelligence model for a common document type such as an invoice, receipt, ID document, contract, bank statement, pay stub, or tax form. Instead of collecting labeled examples and training a custom model, a developer calls the prebuilt model and receives extracted fields, text, tables, confidence scores, and layout information. It is useful when the document matches a known pattern well enough. It is not magic; teams still need validation, exception handling, data protection, and downstream business rules.
Document Intelligence
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AI and Machine Learning
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Form Recognizer
Form Recognizer is the former name for Azure AI Document Intelligence, an Azure AI service that analyzes documents and extracts text, tables, layout, and structured fields. Teams use it to turn invoices, receipts, IDs, contracts, forms, and scanned documents into structured data for applications, workflow automation, search indexing, review queues, and compliance processing. It is not a human legal review, a guarantee that every extracted field is correct, a storage system for regulated documents, or a reason to skip confidence thresholds and validation logic.
Azure AI Document Intelligence
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Form Recognizer, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Document Intelligence, Azure AI Form Recognizer
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AI and Machine Learning
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Confidence score
a model-provided certainty value that helps teams judge whether extracted fields, text, tables, or classifications should be accepted automatically or reviewed by a person
Document Intelligence
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AI and Machine Learning
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Invoice model
Invoice model controls how teams automate invoice data extraction before routing results into approvals, ERP systems, payment workflows, audits, or exception handling queues. Teams see it in document intelligence studio, prebuilt invoice api calls. It is not a custom document model, a receipt model, an invoice section in billing, an accounting system, or a generative model that summarizes documents; confusing them can create incorrect payment amounts, missed line items. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Document Intelligence
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: prebuilt invoice model, Document Intelligence invoice model, invoice extraction model, invoice processing model
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AI and Machine Learning
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Bounding region
A bounding region is Document Intelligence output that identifies an element location by page number and polygon coordinates on the page.
Document Intelligence
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Layout model
A layout model in Azure AI Document Intelligence analyzes a document structure and returns extracted text, tables, selection marks, paragraphs, roles, and layout information. Microsoft Learn describes layout capabilities for prebuilt extraction, Markdown or text output, and search enrichment scenarios that need structured document content.
Document Intelligence
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AI and Machine Learning
verified
Read model
In Azure AI Document Intelligence, the Read model is the prebuilt OCR model that extracts printed and handwritten text, words, lines, bounding locations, and languages from documents and images. It is also the text foundation used by layout, prebuilt, and custom document models.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Document Intelligence Read model, prebuilt-read, Read OCR, OCR read model, Azure AI Read model
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AI and Machine Learning
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Receipt model
The Document Intelligence receipt model is a prebuilt model that uses OCR and deep learning to analyze sales receipts and return structured fields such as merchant, transaction date, tax, total, and line-item details. It supports printed and handwritten receipts in varying formats and quality.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: prebuilt receipt model, Document Intelligence receipt model, receipt data extraction, prebuilt-receipt
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search index
An Azure AI Search index is the place where your application searches. It is not just a pointer to a database or blob container. It is a separate searchable structure with documents, fields, and rules for how text, filters, facets, semantic ranking, and vectors behave. If the index schema is wrong, the search experience feels wrong even when the source data is good. Developers and operators use indexes to make.
AI platform and search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search index, search index, AI Search index, azure-ai-search-index
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search indexer
An Azure AI Search indexer is the automated worker that fills a search index from another data source. Instead of your application pushing every document into Azure AI Search, the indexer pulls from places such as Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Data Lake Storage. It can map fields, detect changes, crack documents, and run enrichment skills before writing searchable documents. It is useful when source data changes regularly.
AI platform and search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search indexer, search indexer, indexer, azure-ai-search-indexer
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Language
Azure AI Language is the Azure natural-language processing service for analyzing and understanding text with prebuilt and customizable language capabilities.
AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Language, Azure Language in Foundry Tools, Azure Language service, Language in Foundry Tools, Language service
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search
Azure AI Search is a managed retrieval service for full-text, vector, hybrid, and semantic search across application and enterprise content. It provides search services, indexes, indexers, skillsets, ranking features, security controls, and APIs used by apps, copilots, and knowledge portals.
Search
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search, AI Search, Azure Cognitive Search, enterprise search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, Search service
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI services
Azure AI services is the family of Azure cloud AI APIs and resources, surfaced through Foundry Tools, for vision, speech, language, translation, content, and generative scenarios.
AI services
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Aliases: AI services, Azure AI services account, Cognitive Services, Foundry Tools
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Speech
The Azure speech service for converting speech to text, text to speech, speech translation, pronunciation assessment, and related speech-enabled capabilities.
AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Speech, Speech in Foundry Tools, Speech service, Speech-to-text
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Translator
A cloud-based machine translation service for translating text and documents across supported languages through REST APIs and client libraries.
AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Translator, Document Translation, Text Translation, Translator
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Vision
The Azure vision service that analyzes images and visual content for tasks such as OCR, object information, captions, tags, and image understanding.
AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Vision, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Vision in Foundry Tools
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Foundry
Create a governed project boundary where AI teams can build agents, evaluations, files, and model deployments without unmanaged sprawl.; Compare, evaluate, and approve model deployments before a generative AI feature is
AI platform
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AI Foundry, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry resource, Foundry project, Azure AI Foundry, azure ai foundry
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is the Azure AI service used to detect harmful text and image content before it reaches users, moderators, or automated workflows. In Azure, teams encounter it when applications accept user posts, comments, uploads, prompts, or model outputs that need moderation and policy review. The useful question is what behavior it proves,
Responsible AI
advanced
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Aliases: Content Safety, Azure Content Safety, harm detection, content moderation API
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Azure AI Foundry hub
Azure AI Foundry hub is the classic Foundry hub resource used to group AI projects that share common security, data access, connections, and platform settings. In Azure, teams encounter it when teams need hub-based projects for selected Foundry and Azure Machine Learning scenarios such as fine-tuning, shared connections, and custom ML work. The useful question
AI platform
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: AI Hub, Foundry AI Hub, hub-based project, Azure AI hub
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Foundry project
An Azure AI Foundry project is the working area where a team builds and organizes an AI application inside Microsoft Foundry. It keeps related agents, evaluations, files, indexes, tools, connections, and model usage together instead of scattering them across a shared portal. Think of it as the project boundary for one AI product, prototype, or team. It is useful because AI work quickly becomes messy: prompts, test data, model deployments, safety checks, and access decisions all need a home with ownership and repeatable operations.
AI platform
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: AI Foundry project, AI project, Foundry project, Microsoft Foundry project
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI metrics
Azure AI metrics is the measurable signals used to observe Azure AI applications, model endpoints, agents, evaluations, safety checks, and business outcomes.
Azure AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AI metrics, AI service metrics, Azure AI Metrics Advisor, Azure Monitor metrics for AI, Metrics Advisor, time series anomaly detection
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Search data source
Azure AI Search data source is the connection definition an Azure AI Search indexer uses to read content from a supported external data store.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Search data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, indexer data source, search data source connection
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Search service
Azure AI Search service is the Azure resource that hosts Azure AI Search indexes, indexers, skillsets, keys, capacity, networking, and query endpoints.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AI Search resource, AI Search service, Azure Search service, Search service, search service
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Search skillset
Azure AI Search skillset is a reusable Azure AI Search enrichment object that applies built-in or custom processing during indexer execution.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AI enrichment skillset, Search skillset, cognitive skillset, skillset
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI services account
An Azure resource that provides endpoints, keys, identity, networking, billing, and monitoring for one or more Azure AI service capabilities.
Azure AI services
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: AI services account, Azure AI multi-service resource, Foundry resource, Microsoft.CognitiveServices account
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AI and Machine Learning
verified
Responsible AI
Microsoft Learn describes Responsible AI as an approach to developing, assessing, and deploying AI systems safely, ethically, and with trust. In Azure Machine Learning, it connects fairness, reliability, privacy, security, transparency, accountability, and operational tooling so teams can evaluate models before production use.
Responsible AI
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: Responsible Artificial Intelligence, RAI, trustworthy AI, AI governance, responsible machine learning
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AI and Machine Learning
command-rich
Data source in AI Search
Data source in AI Search is documented by Microsoft as part of the Azure AI Search area in Azure.
Azure AI Search
intermediate
6 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
complete
Single-service AI account
An Azure AI services resource dedicated to one service kind, with its own endpoint, keys, region, SKU, monitoring, and billing.
AI services
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: single service AI resource, single-service Azure AI resource, dedicated AI services account
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Search document
A search document is a single searchable JSON record stored in an Azure AI Search index. It contains field values defined by the index schema, including a unique key, retrievable content, filters, facets, sortable values, and sometimes vector fields.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search document, search index document, indexed document, searchable document, document in search index
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Databases
premium
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed database service for NoSQL, relational, and vector workloads. It supports global distribution, elastic scale, multiple APIs, request-unit capacity, backup, and high availability so modern applications can store and query data without operating database servers.
Azure Cosmos DB
fundamentals
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Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB, Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Cosmos database, global NoSQL database, request-unit database
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Databases
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Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
The native document database API of Azure Cosmos DB for JSON data, SQL-like queries, partitioning, indexing, and scalable request-unit throughput.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB NoSQL API, Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
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AI and Machine Learning
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AI tracing
AI tracing captures execution telemetry for generative AI applications and agents, including model calls, prompts, tool invocations, retrieval steps, latency, token usage, errors, and run relationships so teams can debug and monitor behavior in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Monitor.
AI observability
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Foundry tracing, agent tracing, LLM tracing, AI distributed tracing
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AI and Machine Learning
field-manual-complete
Private endpoint for AI service
A private endpoint for an AI service is the private network doorway to an Azure AI services account. Applications still call the service endpoint they are configured to use, but clients inside the linked network can resolve that name to a private IP instead of reaching across a public path. It is useful when document processing, language analysis, speech, content safety, or vision workloads handle sensitive data. It does not replace authentication, keys, managed identity, or responsible AI controls.
AI platform and search
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Private endpoint for Azure OpenAI
A private endpoint for Azure OpenAI is the private network doorway to an Azure OpenAI resource. Your application still calls the Azure OpenAI endpoint and authenticates normally, but from approved networks the name can resolve to a private IP instead of a public address. It is commonly used for enterprise chat, RAG, summarization, and agent workloads that handle sensitive prompts or documents. It protects the network path, not the prompt content by itself, so identity, logging, safety, and data controls still matter.
Azure OpenAI
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure OpenAI resource
An Azure OpenAI resource is the Azure control-plane boundary that hosts deployments, endpoints, access, networking, and billing context.
Azure OpenAI
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AI and Machine Learning
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Customer managed key for Azure OpenAI
Customer managed key for Azure OpenAI is a production Azure concept tied to Azure OpenAI.
Azure OpenAI
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Customer-managed key for Azure OpenAI, Customer managed key for Azure OpenAI
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service provides managed access to OpenAI model capabilities through Azure endpoints and enterprise controls.
Generative AI
fundamentals
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Aliases: Azure OpenAI
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premium
Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls.
Azure OpenAI
intermediate
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Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service
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Management and Governance
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Azure Policy
Azure Policy is a governance service for creating, assigning, and managing rules that evaluate Azure resources.
Azure Policy
fundamentals
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Aliases: Policy
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