# tag: Compliance
- ▸ azure-policy-out-of-the-box.md · 6 aug 2026
Azure Policy out of the box: 5,000 guardrails you already own
Microsoft ships just over 5,000 ready-written policy rules and about 270 grouped rule-sets with every Azure subscription, mapped to ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS and the UK OFFICIAL controls. They cost nothing to run, and the assignment count in your own subscription is a two-minute check.
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Keep Azure in the right regions: the allowed-locations policy
Stop resources landing in the wrong region. Azure's built-in allowed-locations policy is a real compliance control you can assign in a few lines of Terraform.
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