Cloud Accounts and the Resource Hierarchy: Tenants, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Tags and Naming
In Azure every resource is a leaf of a tree made of a tenant, management groups, subscriptions and resource groups; the subscription is the billing boundary and the resource group the lifecycle boundary. For Bookstore we cover the prod/nonprod subscription split, a naming tool that catches global name limits, enforcing tags with Azure Policy, a first resource group with az CLI, free account credits and a budget alert on day one, with AWS equivalents.
15 Nov 2026
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