Which governance service indirectly helps ensure high availability and automated failover by enforcing policies?
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Correct answer: Azure Policy.
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Azure Policy helps ensure high availability and automated failover indirectly by enforcing rules and effects on your Azure resources. For example, you can use Azure Policy to mandate that all virtual machines are deployed with managed disks (which support availability sets and zones) or that specific backup solutions are enabled. While Azure Policy doesn't directly perform failover, it ensures that resources are configured in a way that supports high availability and automated recovery mechanisms. Azure Monitor is for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry data. Azure Advisor provides recommendations for optimizing resources. Azure Resource Graph allows for efficient querying of Azure resources at scale. These services do not enforce policies in the way Azure Policy does.
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