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Describe management groups - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press
Describe management groups
- [Instructor] So you've just learned that each Azure resource is created in a resource group. Well, each resource group is created in your Azure subscription, and resource groups make it easy to organize Azure resources. But what if you have multiple Azure subscriptions? How can you organize those? You can't use a resource group because the resource group is created inside of the Azure subscription. So for that reason, Microsoft created management groups. Management groups provide a way for you to organize Azure subscriptions. In fact, the only thing you can put into a management group is an Azure subscription or another management group. Now, the diagram you see here is just one way you might want to use management groups. In this example, a company has three top-level management groups, one for the sales department, one for the IT department, and one for the training department. Within those management groups are the…