Azure Management Infrastructure

In this lesson, you'll get familiar with Azure's management infrastructure, which includes resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and accounts. Knowing how these components are organized can help you better manage your Azure projects and deployments.

Azure Resources and Resource Groups

An Azure resource is anything you create or configure within Azure, such as Virtual Machines (VMs), databases, virtual networks, and more.

Resource groups are collections of these resources. Every resource must be part of a resource group, and while a resource group can contain many resources, each resource can only be in one resource group at a time. You can move resources between groups, but they will only belong to one group at any given moment. Resource groups cannot be nested within each other.

Resource groups are useful because they allow you to manage multiple resources together. For example, if you delete a resource group, all the resources within it will also be deleted. Similarly, you can apply permissions to a resource group, and those permissions will apply to all resources within the group.

Resource Group	Description
DevEnvironment	Contains resources for development purposes such as VMs, storage accounts, databases, and app services.
ProdEnvironment	Contains resources for production, including VMs, storage accounts, databases, and app services.
MarketingCampaign	Contains resources for marketing efforts, including cognitive services, databases, and web apps.

Azure Subscriptions

Azure subscriptions are units of management and billing. They help you organize your resource groups and manage billing.

You need an Azure subscription to access and use Azure services. This subscription links to an Azure account, which can be an identity in Microsoft Entra ID or a directory trusted by it.

One Azure account can have multiple subscriptions. Each subscription can be used to apply different billin…