# AZ-104 - Governance and Compliance - Managing Subscriptions

##### [Organize and manage multiple Azure subscriptions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/organize-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

![image.png](https://wiki.tinod.net/uploads/images/gallery/2024-02/scaled-1680-/CvOvXZvfeQrt5OaS-image.png)


#### Subscription naming conventions

##### <span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Prod/Dev/Staging</span>

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

##### <span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Department/Teams</span>

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.

##### <span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Region</span>

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