AZ-104 - Governance and Compliance - Managing Subscriptions

Organize and manage multiple Azure subscriptions

What are subscriptions

• Billing unit that aggregates all costs of underlying resources
• Contain resource groups and their associated resources
• Scoping level for governance and security
• Can be associated with only a single organization (Azure AD Tenant) at a time

Examples:

you can define multiple subscriptions per department to identify costs

Subscription naming conventions

- Prod/Dev/Staging

 Subscriptions are named based on whether they are production, development or staging environments.

- Department/Teams

Subscriptions are named based on the department or team the subscription is intended for so that billing can then be easily associated with a given business unit.

- Region

Subscription are name based on the region of the business that uses the subscription.