In this mega-blog, we will be covering the following articles just to cover all the Azure basics on a single page.

Azure Regions
Azure Subscriptions
Azure Resources & Resource Groups
Azure VM Pricing Calculator
Azure Budget Control
Create Virtual Private Network ( VPC / vNET )
What is Blob Storage and Storage containers
Implications of Temporary Storage in Azure VM
Reboot/Shutdown Behaviour of Azure VM’s
Azure Trusted Advisor
Elasticity/Scalablity
Capex/Opex
PAAS/ IAAS / SAAS
Azure Marketplace

With Azure/AWS Cloud Services there are no upfront costs such as purchasing servers, setting DC’s, etc. Underlying physical infrastructure is managed by Microsoft/Amazon so we only need to worry about the virtual machines running costs at a given point. We must also bear in mind however even when VM is shutdown, we can incur small costs due to the fact disks are provisioned on it

What is an Azure Region?

Regions would mean where Azure has its data center available.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/geographies/

What is Azure Subscription?

Subscriptions are purely used to separate billing aspects, control permissions to resources, etc

eg: Our subscription name is Free Trial but we could have several subscriptions in our Azure Account.

When you have so many subscriptions you can add them all logically to an mgmt group. In this example, Azure subscription 1 and 2 can be part of Management Group B.

What are Resources and Resource Groups?

Resources are stuff we spin up such as Virtual machines, virtual disks, virtual nics, storage accounts, the location (region) that we are in etc. The main goal of a resource group is thus to hold metadata of objects within it.

A Resource Group is a container to hold or group all those resources we created. If you’re from a vCenter background, think of the resource group as a folder that contains all our VM’s in it. We can apply for permissions at the folder level, get reports out from the folder level etc.

Every resource we create in Azure has to be part of a subscription. All resources in our Azure account can be viewed by going to the All Resources section.

Creating Resource Group

1 – Login to Azure portal and Click on Resource Groups

2 – Click Create Resource Groups

3- Choose our subscription to create the resource group under and give the resource group a name. We have selected the default East US region as our location to deploy all the resources.