Governance
Azure subscriptions
Billing and management boundary below management groups.
Key points
- Provide an Azure billing and management boundary within a tenant.
- Contain resource groups and resources and participate in a management-group hierarchy.
- Have quotas, provider registrations, policies, access assignments, and cost context.
Best-known use cases
- Separate production and development management boundaries.
- Track and govern resources within a billing scope.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Subscription vs tenant: Azure management boundary vs Entra identity boundary.
- Subscription vs resource group: parent billing and management boundary vs child lifecycle container.
Key takeaway
Use subscriptions as explicit management and billing boundaries, then organize their resources with resource groups.
Related services
- Azure management groups
- Azure resource groups
- Azure resource tags
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.3.S3 — Apply and manage tags on resources
- D1.3.S4 — Manage resource groups
- D1.3.S5 — Manage subscriptions
- D1.3.S7 — Configure management groups