Azure Arc

Azure Arc projects on-premises, multicloud, and edge resources into Azure Resource Manager so they can be governed, secured, and managed with the same control plane as Azure-native resources, extending Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Azure Monitor to hybrid estates.

When to use

Bringing non-Azure servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services under consistent Azure governance and security. Use this skill when you need one pane of glass and policy plane across hybrid / multicloud machines.

Do not use this skill for Azure-native VMs (use ARM directly), Intune-managed endpoints (intune-device-mgmt), or Azure Stack HCI deployment.

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