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Understanding Azure Account, Subscription and Directory.
For the last couple of days, I am trying to understand the relationship between Azure account, Subscription, and Directory and Resource Groups. Is there any comprehensive guide that can help me ...
- a tenant is associated with a single identity (person, company, or organization) and can own one or several subscriptions
- a subscription is linked to a payment setup and each subscription will result in a separate bill
- in every subscription, you can add virtual resources (VM, storage, network, ...)
Every tenant is linked to a single Azure AD instance, which is shared with all tenant's subscriptions
Resources from one subscription are isolated from resources in other subscriptions
An owner of a tenant can decide to have multiple subscriptions:
- when https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits are reached
- to use different payment methods
- to isolate resources between different departments, projects, regional offices, and so on.