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Azure resources are organized hierarchically as :

Tenant → Management Group → Subscription → Resource Group → Resources.

What these terms stand for :

  • Tenant represents the Entra ID identity boundary
  • Subscriptions are billing and governance boundaries
  • Resource Groups logically organize related resources

For authentication and automation
Azure uses Service Principals, which are non-human identities tied to applications.
A Service Principal is created from an App Registration.

  • Authentication typically uses Tenant ID, Client ID, and Client Secret.
  • After authentication, Azure RBAC controls Authorization and permissions on subscriptions, resource groups, or resources
  • Managed Identities are Azure-managed Service Principals that avoid secret management and are preferred when running workloads inside Azure