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.