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Azure Resource Hierarchy

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Design considerations :

• Provides many structures to support security, lifecyle, management and billing.

• Leverage subscriptions as a logical unit of management, aligned to business.

• Handle the assignment inheritance.

Management Groups

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1. Root Management Groups

   1. Top of the entire hierarchy

   2. Policies applied are considered GLOBAL

   3. Requires Azure AD Global Admin access

2. Management Group (MG) Hierarchy

   1. Up to 6 levels are supported

   2. 1 MG can have multiple children

   3. 1 subscription/MG can have only 1 parent

3. Compliance

   1. Supports policies

   2. Supports RBAC

   3. Supports auditing with activity log

Resource Tagging

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1. Custom Information : Name/Value text pairs for storing information about your resources

2. Applying Tags : 1 or more tags can be applied to supported resources, resource groups and subscriptions

3. Use Cases : monitoring, cost management, automation, management, etc.