- Billing entity
- All resources within a subscription are billed together
- Cost separation
- You can have multiple subscriptions within a tenant to separate costs
- Payment
- If a subscription isnt paid, all the resources and services associated with the subscription stop
- Multiple subscriptions
- Any Azure account can have multiple subscriptions
- Billing Admin
- One or more users can be a “billing admin”, which manages anything to do with billing and invoicing on Azure.
- Ensures separation of responsibility
- Billing Cycle
- Management groups
- Group subscriptions
- Take action across subscriptions in bulk
- Useful in large organizations with many subscriptions
- Organize
- Manage access, policies and compliance in bulk
- Billing logic
- You maintain the billing associated with the right budgets
- Nest management groups to indicated hierarchy and relationship