Enforces resource quotas and handles similar governance work, running as one extra VM alongside Prism Central, whether that is a single or scale-out deployment.
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Terms in this definition
- Governance
Keeping cloud deployments in line with an organisation's rules on technology, security and compliance, helped by Azure Policy, tags and resource locks.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- Model deployment
Inside a resource, each deployment is a named copy of a Foundry model with its own TPM quota and deployment type. Requests identify the model by this deployment name.
Related terms
- Conditional Access
Policy engine in Microsoft Entra ID P1 that, depending on signals such as risk or named locations, allows access subject to controls like MFA or a compliant device, or blocks it.
- Quota policy
Caps a project's compute, memory or storage, with the Policy Engine doing the enforcing. Nothing is reserved, so project members may still find resources short when the cluster is.