Describe Azure management infrastructure Flashcards
What is the Azure management infrastructure?
The Azure management infrastructure includes Azure resources, resource groups, subscriptions, accounts, and management groups. It provides the organizational framework for planning and managing projects and products within Azure.
What is an Azure resource?
An Azure resource is the fundamental building block of Azure. It encompasses anything created, provisioned, or deployed within Azure, such as Virtual Machines (VMs), databases, or cognitive services.
What is a resource group in Azure?
A resource group is a logical grouping of Azure resources. Each resource must belong to a resource group, and actions applied to a resource group affect all resources within it, such as provisioning, deletion, or access control.
Why are resource groups useful in Azure?
Resource groups provide a convenient way to manage and organize resources within Azure. They enable actions applied to a group to affect all resources within it, facilitating management, billing, and access control.
What is an Azure subscription?
An Azure subscription is a unit of management, billing, and scale in Azure. It provides authenticated and authorized access to Azure products and services, facilitates resource provisioning, and links to an Azure account.
How do Azure subscriptions facilitate billing?
Azure subscriptions enable organizations to organize resource groups and manage costs effectively. They allow the aggregation of billing reports and invoices for different types of billing requirements, such as environments, organizational structures, or billing purposes.
What is an Azure management group?
An Azure management group is a higher-level container that organizes Azure subscriptions. It allows the application of governance conditions to multiple subscriptions, providing enterprise-grade management at scale.
Why are management groups useful in Azure?
Management groups enable efficient management of access, policies, and compliance for multiple subscriptions. They provide enterprise-grade management capabilities, especially for organizations with complex hierarchies or multiple applications.
What are some examples of how to use management groups?
Management groups can be used to apply policies across multiple subscriptions, provide user access to multiple subscriptions through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), and organize subscriptions into hierarchies for unified policy and access management.
