AZ List Subscriptions
Azure subscriptions are a collection of resources known as billing containers. Each subscription has a unique ID that has been generated by MS automatically while creating the Azure subscription. If you need to create or access the resources, then you need a subscription access. Without the subscription access, you will not be able to access the resources under Azure subscription.
Let’s take a look at the different types of subscriptions in the following section:
- Free subscription: MS provides this subscription. It is free for the first 30 days which includes $230 credit and free 25 services for 12 months. It is used for practical and learning purpose.
- Pay-as-you-go subscription: It is used widely in organizations and the pay-as-you-go subscription has a flexible payment method, and there is no limit for purpose or commitments. If a customer wants like to cancel the subscription, he/she can cancel the subscription.
- Microsoft resellers (Cloud solution provider -CSP): The CSP subscription is used only at the Organization level where MS provides you with the access to work with partners directly to design and implement the solutions to meet your project requirements.
- Open: This subscription provides you with the flexibility to work with the same vendor from where you purchased the open volume license program and activated your Azure subscription.
- Azure government customer: This subscription is used for US government entities that are eligible to purpose Azure government services, and they can use the pay-as-you-go service.
- Azure Germany customers: This subscription is used for European Union or EFTA entities that are eligible to purpose Azure government services and they can use the pay-as-you-go service.
Enterprise Agreement subscription
The EA (Enterprise Agreement) is designed for organizations, and in this subscription, the customer has to sign an agreement with Microsoft directly with the amount of consumption on your Azure resources. When an organization signs up for the EA agreement, a billing account is created and the billing can be done monthly, quarterly, or yearly based on the agreement. It is most commonly known as Enterprise agreement, and it is only used by Organisations.
Along with the subscriptions discussed earlier, we can also opt for the following support plan with a subscription which will help you to connect to the MS support team to fix or troubleshoot the issue.This kind of subscription support plan is most commonly used for Azure development/testing purposes where MS provides the discounted rates on Azure to support your ongoing development and testing activity. This subscription support plan can be used by companies where MS includes its technical, billing, and other teams to get a faster resolution and support.
Azure tenant
An Azure tenant is nothing but Azure AD. It’s a dedicated instance of Azure AD that an organization receives and authorizes the users to various cloud services. An Azure tenant can have multiple subscriptions. However, a subscription cannot have multiple tenants. In the following diagram, you can see four 3 subscriptions and one directory. All the others are different. Once you create the subscription, the first tenant (Azure AD) will be created, and then the subscription will be associated with it. If you have a tenant, then you can create multiple subscriptions. Let’s take a look at the following figure to get an understanding of how tenants work in Azure.
