With Service Groups, you can now leverage flexible cross-subscription grouping, multiple hierarchies, low privilege management, nested resource hierarchies, and data aggregation for practical workloads and application monitoring.
What are Service Groups?
A Service Group (SG) is a new Azure group that supports flexible grouping of cross-subscription resources and scopes providing a unified view and management capabilities.
Key Features
- Flexible Cross-Subscription Grouping: Azure resources and scopes, from anywhere in the tenant, can become members of one or multiple service groups.
- Low Privilege Management: Service Groups are designed to operate with minimal permissions, ensuring that users can manage resources without needing excessive access rights and appealing to multiple personas.
- Varying Hierarchies: Service Groups can be self-nested providing the ability to have multiple hierarchy structures of resource containers.
- Data Aggregation & Views: Aggregate data from resources across subscriptions for practical workloads. View application health (via Health Model) and important data values centered around your wanted perspective.
For more information on Service Groups, please visit Microsoft Learn | Azure Service Groups.
When should I use them?
Service Groups should be leveraged in scenarios where resources sprawl across your environment and there is a need to monitor and view analytics on those resources. This is commonly found in scenarios needing to model application hierarchy, company services and workloads. Service Groups cannot be used as a deployment scope nor to manage Policy nor RBAC.
Try it out!
Sign your tenant up for the public preview here: https://aka.ms/sgp
Once onboarded, we will share steps to building your first Service Group! 🙂
FAQ
Do Service Groups replace existing Azure groups?   
No, Service Groups have been designed to work in parallel with existing Azure Groups. For a compare and contrast of existing scopes, please review our official documentation on Azure Service Groups.
Who can create Service Groups?
Anyone with a valid Azure user account in a Microsoft Entra directory can leverage Service Groups!
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You can reach our team by email at mailto:azureservicegroups@microsoft.com for any questions or comments!
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