Time-limited, conditional approval allowing a project to deviate from the architecture once its compliance assessment has been turned down.
Also called waiver.
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Terms in this definition
- Foundry project
A container beneath a Foundry resource that keeps one team's agents, data, files, evaluations and project connections separate. Model deployments and resource-level connections are shared from the parent, and governance is not configured at this level.
- Compliance Assessment
An output of Phase G that records periodic, checklist-based reviews of whether an implementation project conforms to the architecture.
Related terms
- Exemption
Lets you take a particular scope or resource out of an Azure Policy assignment's evaluation, or out of chosen definitions within an initiative, so it reports as Exempt. You label it Waiver or Mitigated and can give it an end date; exclusions hide resources from compliance results, whereas exempted ones still appear.