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What are Azure Management Groups?

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  Azure has four management levels that help you organize, secure, manage, and monitor costs. So, this image shows the four levels of management scope and the relationship. Management group is at the top of the hierarchy. All subscriptions in a management group automatically inherit the conditions or settings specified at a management group level. So, a management group is like a container for all your subscriptions. As subscriptions there can also be multiple management groups in an organization. For example, if organization we want to allow azure resources to be created only in the South India azure region.  To achieve this, Create a policy at the Management Group Level. This policy is then automatically applied to all management groups and subscriptions that come from the IT management group. The security policy is applicable to all resources under those subscriptions and cannot be modified in any way...

What are Azure Resource Group Benefits?

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Before staring, please check this article What Are Azure Resources and Resource Groups? Benefits:  The main benefits are administration is much easier. Let's understand this with an example.   Consider a virtual machine. When we create a virtual machine in azure, several other associated resources are automatically created like the following - a disk for the virtual machine, public IP address, network interface, network security group and a virtual network. Without these resources, an azure virtual machine doesn’t work as expected. After you're done with the VM, you may want to delete it to save on cost.  However, when you delete the virtual machine, the associated resources are not automatically deleted. You have to delete them manually. If you forget to delete one or more associated resources, you are unnecessarily paying for those resources that you're not actually using. ·          Now, let's quickly take ...

What are Azure Resources and Resource Groups

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we’ll understand what are azure resources and resource groups. First, let’s understand, what are azure resources? Azure Resource Think of resources in Azure as individual pieces or instances of the services you use. Just like how you might have different appliances or gadgets in your home for various tasks, each Azure resource serves a specific purpose, such as storing data, running applications, or managing networks. like virtual machines, app services, storage accounts, SQL databases, function apps, etc. All these are azure services. So, every time you create an instance of a service, you are creating an azure resource.  Azure offers a huge variety of services. You can see the complete list of services by navigating to this URL.  https://portal.azure.com/#allservices Azure Resource Group : It’s a logical container for grouping related azure resources. A resource group is a group of azure res...