| Management group hierarchy and subscription vending |
Included | Included | Included |
| Cost guardrails and budget alerts |
Included | Included | Included |
| Azure Policy |
Baseline: deny unapproved regions | Audit and deny for your framework | Audit and deny, plus network inspection |
| Compliance framework |
Not included | One of SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or NIST 800-53 | Pre-integrated controls |
| Auditor evidence dossier and control traceability matrix |
Not included | Included | Included |
| Hub-and-spoke network, firewall, Bastion, central logging, private DNS |
Not included | Not included | Included |
| Design document, diagrams, decision records, runbooks |
Included | Included | Included |
| Handoff |
Half-day workshop | Half-day workshop, including a walkthrough of the evidence pack for your auditor | Full-day workshop and 14 days of post-handoff support |
| Azure idle cost |
$0/mo | $0/mo | ~$1,400–1,800/mo |
| Code ownership |
Yours | Yours | Yours |