Managing subscriptions

Subscriptions are billing units for Azure resources; they are the container where all resources are built and contain resources grouped into resource groups. Inside the Azure subscription, you can create multiple resource groups and resources.

A billing profile will have ownership of an Azure subscription, whereby an Azure subscription will have a trust relationship established with a single Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

Analyzing the hierarchy shown in the following diagram, you will see subscriptions form the bottom layer of an enterprise hierarchy in resource allocation within Azure:

Figure 4.23 – Azure management hierarchy

You will see the hierarchy is divided into four levels, these being Enterprise, Departments, Accounts, and Subscriptions. In the following overview, you will get an idea of what these different levels are for:

• Enterprise: This is an identifier (ID) for the organization, normally...