---
title: Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
description: Lists Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). These built-in policy definitions provide common approaches to managing the compliance of your Azure resources.
ms.date: 02/06/2024
author: davidsmatlak
ms.author: davidsmatlak

ms.topic: sample
ms.subservice: aks-security
ms.custom: subject-policy-compliancecontrols
# Customer intent: As a cloud compliance officer, I want to understand the regulatory compliance controls for Azure Kubernetes Service, so that I can ensure our deployments adhere to required security standards and manage compliance effectively.
---

# Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

[Regulatory Compliance in Azure Policy](/azure/governance/policy/concepts/regulatory-compliance)
provides initiative definitions (*built-ins*) created and managed by Microsoft, for the compliance domains and security controls related to different compliance standards. This page lists the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) compliance domains and security controls.

You can assign the built-ins for a **security control** individually to help make your Azure resources compliant with the specific standard.

[!INCLUDE [azure-policy-compliancecontrols-introwarning](~/azure-docs-pr/includes/policy/standards/intro-warning.md)]

[!INCLUDE [azure-policy-compliancecontrols-aks](~/azure-policy-autogen-docs/includes/policy/standards/byrp/microsoft.containerservice.md)]

## Next steps

- Learn more about [Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance](/azure/governance/policy/concepts/regulatory-compliance).
- See the built-ins on the [Azure Policy GitHub repo](https://github.com/Azure/azure-policy).

