Last updated on January 22, 2026
Deprecation and Retirement Notice
Azure Blueprints is deprecated. The service will be retired on July 11, 2026.
Azure Blueprints Cheat Sheet
- (Deprecated) Azure Blueprints was a service that created templates for standard and repeatable Azure environments that comply with an organization’s compliance requirements and operational standards.
- It supports the following resources as artifacts:
- Role Assignments
- Policy Assignments
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Resource Groups
- It provides resource locking to prevent unwanted changes.
- Blueprints role: Owner, Contributor, Blueprint Contributor, Blueprint Operator
- With Blueprints, you have a centralized location for environment management, including deployment, versioning, and update.
- If your subscriptions are in the same Azure Blueprint, you can upgrade multiple subscriptions at once.
- You can also use Blueprints to set up resource groups within subscriptions.
- Set up multiple environments within the same shared environment, when you assign a Blueprint to a subscription.
Note: For new deployments, use Azure Template Specs with Azure Deployment Stacks for governed environment deployment.
Azure Blueprints References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/blueprints/overview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/blueprints/
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Written by: Jon Bonso
Jon Bonso is the co-founder of Tutorials Dojo, an EdTech startup and an AWS Digital Training Partner that provides high-quality educational materials in the cloud computing space. He graduated from Mapúa Institute of Technology in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Information Technology. Jon holds 10 AWS Certifications and is also an active AWS Community Builder since 2020.
