The article discusses a solution to the challenge of deploying workloads in the highly regulated Azure Government Cloud (AGC) under FedRAMP constraints, which often prohibit the use of commercial automation tools. It outlines a custom Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) framework built on Azure Bicep and Python orchestration that ensures deployments are fully auditable, repeatable, and compliant. This framework successfully reduced the provisioning time for a compliant environment to about two hours, eliminating configuration drift and demonstrating that agility and compliance can be achieved simultaneously.
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