Overview of Azure subscriptions, management groups, and resources

Azure Management groups

Azure management groups are used in organizations with a lot of Azure subscriptions. When there are a lot of subscriptions, it might not be easy to manage access, policies, and the prising of subscriptions. To manage these, they use management groups. The management groups can manage the subscriptions and policies at any scale and for any subscription. To ensure efficient management, all subscriptions within a management group must trust the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. You can customize or create an architecture or hierarchy of the management group according to your organizations and subscriptions. The image below shows the hierarchy structure of a management group.

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Features of a management group

• Almost 10,000 management groups can be supported in a single directory.
• A single management group tree can support up to six levels of depth.
• Every management group and subscription can only support one parent.
• Every management group can have many children.
• All the subscriptions and management groups are within a single hierarchy in each directory.

Azure Resource Groups

A resource group in Azure stores all the resources that are necessary for a group. You can allocate the resources and resource groups to manage those resources based on your organization and the services you use. Adding resources that share the same life cycle within the same resource groups in Azure can help us easily deploy, modify and delete the resources or groups. Once you create an Azure template, you can use the Azure portal to deploy the Azure resources. You can also move the resources from one group to another or change your subscriptions.

Resources groups provide us with a feature of locking the resource groups. Once you lock a resource group, the other users in the organization cannot modify or delete the resources, subscriptions, or resource groups unless they have special permissions given for the groups.

FAQs

Where are Azure subscriptions?

Microsoft provides Azure subscriptions to use the Azure cloud services according to your requirements. You can use the free services or pay for what you use according to your subscription type.

How many Azure subscriptions are there?

There are three types of Azure subscriptions provided by Microsoft; free, pay-as-you-go, and member subscriptions. The free subscription lets you use services for free, and the pay-as-you-go, member subscriptions charge the amount based on the services you use.

What is a management group in Azure?

Azure management groups are used in organizations with a lot of Azure subscriptions. The management groups manage the subscriptions and policies at any scale and for any type of subscription. The Azure administrators manage these management groups.

What is a resource group in Azure?

A resource group in Azure stores all the resources that are necessary for a group. You can allocate the resources and resource groups to manage those resources based on your organization and the services you use. 

What is the difference between the resource group and management group in Azure?

Management groups contain a few subscriptions, and subscriptions contain resource groups. A resource group belongs to only one subscription to manage the services and resources inside it.

Conclusion

We have discussed the concept of the Azure and its subscriptions, management groups, and resource groups in this article. 

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