Azure — Organize and Manage Multiple Azure Subscriptions and Resources with Management Groups

Ashish Patel
Awesome Azure
Published in
4 min readAug 6, 2021

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Introduction to Azure Management Groups — Azure Subscriptions Planning and Designing Best Practices, Benefits, and Use Cases.

Azure Management Groups and Subscriptions

TL;DR

Azure Management Groups, Subscriptions, and Resource Groups are used together to establish the entire organizational structure in Azure, and they are designed to be flexible to organize Azure resources to meet business needs. This helps you efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for the subscriptions.

You can build a flexible structure of management groups and subscriptions to organize your resources into a hierarchy for unified policy and access management as per above diagram.

Azure Resource Management Hierarchy

Azure Resource Management Hierarchy

If your organization has many subscriptions, you may need a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for those subscriptions. Azure management groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions. To effectively organize Azure resources, define a hierarchy of management groups and subscriptions to which you can apply Azure…

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Ashish Patel
Awesome Azure

Cloud Architect • 4x AWS Certified • 6x Azure Certified • 1x Kubernetes Certified • MCP • .NET • Terraform • DevOps • Blogger [https://bit.ly/iamashishpatel]