{"id":20229,"date":"2021-01-29T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:22:45","slug":"announcing-compliance-hub-for-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/announcing-compliance-hub-for-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing compliance hub for Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help customers meet their own compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Microsoft Azure maintains the largest compliance portfolio in the industry both in terms of breadth (total number of offerings), as well as depth (number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/services\/\">customer-facing services<\/a>\u00a0in assessment scope). A new <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/compliance\/\">Azure compliance hub page<\/a> provides easy access to this information.<\/p>\n<p>Azure is a multi-tenant hyperscale cloud platform that is available or announced to customers in 60+ <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/global-infrastructure\/geographies\/\">regions<\/a> worldwide. To find out which Azure services are available in which regions, explore the Azure global infrastructure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/global-infrastructure\/services\/\">product availability dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Hub-Image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20230\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Hub-Image.png\" alt=\"Image Compliance Hub Image\" width=\"802\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Hub-Image.png 720w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Hub-Image-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Azure compliance offerings are grouped into four segments:\u00a0<strong>globally applicable, US government, industry specific, and region\/country specific<\/strong>. Compliance offerings are based on various types of assurances, including formal certifications, attestations, validations, authorizations, and assessments produced by independent third-party auditing firms, as well as contractual amendments, self-assessments, and customer guidance documents produced by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Each offering description in Azure compliance documentation provides links to downloadable resources to assist customers with their own compliance obligations. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/compliance\/\">Azure compliance documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help customers meet their own compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Microsoft Azure maintains the largest compliance portfolio in the industry both in terms of breadth (total number of offerings), as well as depth (number of\u00a0customer-facing services\u00a0in assessment scope). A new Azure compliance hub page provides easy access to this information. Azure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5510,"featured_media":20234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[95,189],"class_list":["post-20229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-azuregov","tag-azure-government","tag-compliance"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>To help customers meet their own compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Microsoft Azure maintains the largest compliance portfolio in the industry both in terms of breadth (total number of offerings), as well as depth (number of\u00a0customer-facing services\u00a0in assessment scope). A new Azure compliance hub page provides easy access to this information. 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