Azure Subscriptions are containers that hold your Resource Groups (RGs) and with that your Resources. It might make sense to have multiple subcriptions for separation of billing or management. You can have multiple Subscriptions trust the same Azure Active Directory (AAD) Each Subscription can only trust a single directory Billing is done per subscription Resources can be moved from one Subscription to another if both Subscriptions are in the same AAD Tenant Read more [...]

I am just diving into the world of the Cloud and I am getting to know Azure. I will write a couple of Blog posts on some basics of Azure. I will start with "Resource Groups" in Azure. Resource Groups (RGs) are not really groups, they are containers. You can compare them to OUs (Organisational Units) in Active Directory, for example. The contain Azure Resources (e.g. Storage, VMs, VLANs etc.). As RGs are containers, this means the following: A Resource must be member of a Resource Group, it Read more [...]