Technology guide
Microsoft Azure and HIPAA
A practical review frame for Azure services, identity, monitoring, encryption, and shared responsibility.
Reviewed August 2026
Key considerations
- Confirm the specific Azure services and contractual scope for the workload.
- Entra ID, role assignments, logging, key management, network boundaries, and backup configuration need customer review.
- Platform compliance materials are inputs to an application-specific risk analysis.
Questions to ask
- Who can access the tenant, subscriptions, keys, logs, and support paths?
- How are configuration changes and privileged access reviewed?
- Can the team restore the workload and prove the restored data is usable?