Azure Accounts

• To use Azure we need to have an Azure Account
  
• Azure Account can have more than one subscription
• In Each Subscription we can create Resource Groups which are logical folders to create resources.
• Azure Gives Various plans for subscriptions
  • Pay as You Go
    • Vailidity: As long as you are clearing monthly bills or close this continue
    • Restrictions: Yes we do have restrictions which can be resolved by Azure Support
    • Credit: 0$
    • If you are still in Free tier (12 months), there are always free services and 12 months free services.
  • Free Trail
    • Validay: 1 month
    • Credit: 200$
    • Restrictions: Yes there are restrictions
      • Any time you cannot create more than 4vCPUs
      • All the Regions will not be active
  • Refer Here for the rest
• Azure Free tier account
  • To Create account Refer Here
    • Note: It is better to create a microsoft account if you dont have one before creating azure account Refer Here
    • Need to provide Credit Card info.
• Azure has Management Groups to handle multiple accounts which we will try in next few sessions.
• Next Steps:
  1. Authentication and Authorization in Azure
  2. Role Based Access Control
  3. Enforcing Users to align/work in a specific way (HIPAA, PCI) by using Azure Policy
  4. Multi organization management by using Azure Managment groups.