Organization & Management
- Region - a group of data centers in a single geographic location. For example, "Central US", "South India", etc. Provides high availability and fault tolerance. Deployments are closer (geographically) to your end users. Defends against regional outages.
- Availability Zone - one of several unique locations in a region. There might be one or more individual data centers per zone. Each zone is self-contained (power, cooling, networking, etc). Availability zone deployments are mainly for fault tolerance, protecting against a single point of failure.
Centralized management layer - no matter how you connect to Azure, all requests go through ARM to provide access control
- Web portal
- Command-line interface (CLI)
- Application Access
- Access Control (authentication)
- Everything starts with a single Azure Tenant. Single organization instance of Azure AD.
- Each Tenant can have one or more Management Groups. Management group serves as a grouping component (optional), central management of multiple subscriptions.
- Each Management Group can have one or more Subscriptions. Subscription is a primary billing and access isolation boundary, each subscription has its own billing agreement.
- Each Subscription can have one or more Resource Groups. All Azure resources are created in Resource Groups, serve as a container for resources with same purpose/lifecycle.
- Each Resource Group can contain one or more Resources (VMs, DBs, Functions, etc).
Azure Tenant
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