1. Subscription: A logical unit of Azure services linked to an Azure account, whichis
an identity in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
2. User Principal: An identity that is associated with a user, or a group of users.
3. Management Groups: Allow you to apply governance consistently across sub-
scriptions, including the application of common RBAC controls and the application
of Azure policy.
4. Spending Quotas: Allow administrators to set alerts within an Azure subscrip-
tion by configuring budgets to inform the business when their Azure spending has
hit a certain threshold.
5. Resource Tags: Allow you to apply custom metadata to your Azure resources to
logically organize them and build out custom taxonomies.
, 6. Azure Policy: An Azure service that can be used to create, assign, and manage
policies that enforce governance in your Azure environment.
7. Azure Monitor: Helps you track performance, maintain security, and identify
trends, by ingesting metrics and telemetry from multiple areas, including
applica-tions and the operating systems of virtual machines.
8. Azure Advisor: A free, personalized guide to Azure best practices which pro-
vides recommendations to help you optimize resources for high availability, secu-
rity, performance, and cost.
9. Alerts: Proactively notify you when important conditions are found in
yourmonitoring data.
10. Metrics: Numerical values provided by resources and services within Azure.
11. Enterprise Agreement Portal: Available only to customers with an Enterprise
Agreement and is used for managing spend across one or more subscriptions.