Azure Account
- To use Azure Services an Account needs to be created.
- Every account has root user (owner) and then the other users can be added.
- Azure uses the term tenant to represent where the users and other identity related information is stored.
- Tenant is Azure AD now renamed to Microsoft Entra
- To Create resources in Azure we need subscription and to manage users in Azure we need tenants.
- Azure Acount has both tenants and subscriptions.
- A subscription can be connected/releated to one and only one tenant, where one tenant can be used as Identity Provider for multiple subscriptions.
Active Directory
- Active Directory is microsoft implementation of LDAP which is used by organizations to manage users, servers, group etc.
Azure AD/Microsoft Entra
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Azure AD can connect or sync or federate so that existing Active Directory users can use Azure.
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Relation b/w Azure Account, Subscription and Tenant
