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, The billing unit of Azure Services that aggregates all the Azure Subscriptions
costs of the underlying resources.
An identity in Azure Active Directory (AAD) or a directory Azure Accounts
that is trusted by AAD, such as a work or school
organization.
Also known as the account owner, this person is Account Administrator
responsible for paying the subscription bill to Microsoft
when it is due. Normally, this user has financial
responsibilities in your company such as CFO, Accounts
Payable Lead etc.
Also known as the Service Owner. This user manages the Service Administrator
services that run in Windows Azure. They will have access
to and uses the Window Azure Developer Portal or Service
Management API to orchestrate the applications and data
running in Azure. Normally, the user is a developer, system
administrator, or other IT person responsible for IT
services in your company.
When an enterprise becomes to large for a single Service Co-Administrators
Administrator, the Service Administrator can create this
role for other IT administrators to help them out. They will
have complete access to the subscription services. They
can even add or delete other users in the same role.
However, they cannot remove the Service Owner nor do
they have access to payment/billing information.
The Microsoft recommended way to manage the Role-Based Access Control
permissions of your resources. However this will not work
with Azure's classic deployment model.
Global Administrator Users who are assigned this role can read and modify every administrative setting
in your Azure AD organization. By default this role is given to the user that signed up
for the Azure subscription. It is one of the two roles that has an ability to delegate
administrator roles. To reduce the risk to your business, it is recommended by
Microsoft that you assign this role to the fewest possible people in your
organization.
Application Developer Users in this role can create application registrations when the "Users can register
applications" setting is set to No. This role also grants permission to consent on
one's own behalf when the "Users can consent to apps accessing company data on
their behalf" setting is set to No. Users assigned to this role are added as owners
when creating new application registrations or enterprise applications.
Application Administrator This role grants the ability to manage application credentials. Users assigned this
role can add credentials to an application, and use those credentials to impersonate
the application's identity.
Authentication Administrator Users with this role can set or reset non-password credentials and can update
passwords for all users. Authentication Administrators can require users to re-
register against existing non-password credential
Azure gives you the ability to see the number of resources Azure Resource Limits
you've deployed into your subscription and what your limits
are. This ability makes it easier for you to track current
usage and plan for new deployments in the near future.