4.- Azure accounts and subscriptions

Is Azure AD the same as Windows Active Directory?

No. Azure AD is not the same as Windows Active Directory. Windows Active Directory is focused on securing Windows desktops and servers. In contrast, Azure AD is all about web-based authentication standards such as OpenID and OAuth.

How are users, applications and other entities organized in Azure, are they all part of a single global service?

No. Users, applications, and other entities registered in Azure AD aren't all lumped into a single global service. Instead, Azure AD is partitioned into separate tenants.

Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscription

subscription charges you monthly for the services you used in that billing period. This subscription type is appropriate for a wide range of users, from individuals to small businesses, and many large organizations as well.

What is the way Big Organizations manage their subscriptions?

through Enterprise Agreements (EAs). Typically, they assign their subscriptions to various business units in the company.

What do you use your Azure account for?

to sign in to the Azure website and to administer or deploy services

What is a tenant and how that relates to Azure AD?

A tenant is a dedicated, isolated instance of the Azure Active Directory service, owned and managed by an organization. When you sign up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Office 365, a dedicated instance of Azure AD is automatically created for your organization.

If you want to create Azure subscriptions under your organization's Enterprise Agreement (EA), you need to have the ___________ for your organization.

Account Owner role

Please explain how account owners, subscriptions, tenants, and resources work together.

Azure AD tenants and subscriptions have a one-to-many trust relationship: A tenant can be associated with multiple Azure subscriptions, but every subscription is associated with only one tenant. This structure allows organizations to manage multiple subscriptions and set security rules across all the resources contained within them. Here's a simple representation of how account owners, subscriptions, tenants, and resources work together. (look for image)

By default, who provides authentication for your account?

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Azure AD is a modern identity provider that supports multiple authentication protocols to secure applications and services in the cloud.

As an individual, what type of account you can try?

Azure free account

What is an Azure account?

Is an identity in either Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), or a directory that is trusted by Azure AD, such as a work or school organization. It holds information such as: Name, email, and contact preferences Billing information such as a credit card

Where do you need to do the Subscription transfer?

It is done within the Azure Account Center module as the account administrator.

What type of Subscriptions are there?

There are four. -Free -Pay-As-You-Go -Enterprise Agreement -Student

What is the easiest way to create or ad a subscription to your account?

Through the Azure portal.

An Azure account is associated to what?

To one or more subscriptions.

Can you explain in derails how is an Azure AD tenant created for an individual or an organization within Azure?

When it comes to Azure AD tenants, there is no concrete definition of "organization" — tenants can be owned by individuals, teams, companies, or any other group of people, though, tenants are commonly associated with companies. If you sign up for Azure with an email address that's not associated with an existing tenant, the sign-up process will walk you through creating a tenant, owned entirely by you.

With what its associated every Azure subscription?

With Azure AD. Users and services first need to authenticate with Azure AD to access the resources of the subscription

Are Subscriptions transfereables?

Yes. Occasionally, you might need to transfer a subscription from one billing account to another - for example if an employee leaves the organization and they want to take their subscription with them. The steps required for transfer are straightforward:

Can one Azure account have many subscriptions?

Yes. you can create multiple subscriptions under a single Azure account (Your account can be part of multiple subscriptions)

Azure Enterprise Agreement

provides flexibility to buy cloud services and software licenses under one agreement, with discounts for new licenses and Software Assurance. It's targeted at enterprise-scale organizations.

What do you use subscriptions for?

You can create separate subscriptions on your Azure account to reflect different organizational structures. Or you might want an additional subscription to could limit engineering to lower-cost resources, while allowing the IT department a full range. This design allows you to manage and control access to the resources that users provision within each subscription.avoid reaching subscription limits, to create separate environments for billing and security, or to isolate data for compliance reasons. The subscription is a scope, can be an org structure or limit.

At what level is the billing and the access control, is it account level or subscription level?

at the subscription level, not the account level. A single bill is generated for every Azure subscription on a monthly basis.

Azure for Students subscription

includes $100 in Azure credits to be used within the first 12 months plus select free services without requiring a credit card at sign-up. You must verify your student status through your organizational email address.

Azure free subscription

includes a $200 credit to spend on any service for the first 30 days, free access to the most popular Azure products for 12 months, and access to more than 25 products that are always free. This approach is an excellent way for new users to get started. To set up a free subscription, you need a phone number, a credit card, and a Microsoft account.

What is an Azure subscription?

is a logical container used to provision resources in Microsoft Azure. It holds the details of all your resources like virtual machines, databases, and so on.