Account¶

An account has at least one subscription
- types: Free, pay-as-you-go, student, enterprise
- access control and billing occur at subscription level
Microsoft 365 subscription is different from Azure subscription
- 365 can be linked with Azure by sharing an Active directory allowing users to access both
Subscriptions are billing units.
Management Group can group multiple subscriptions or other management groups
- can specify policies that can be enforced across subscriptions

Blueprints ¶

ability to create repeatable set of Azure resources
declarative way to orchestrate deployment of Roles, Policies, ARM Templates, Resource groups
Unlike ARM templates, Blueprint templates are maintained beyond initial deployment
Helps with auditing and tracking

Trust Center web-site offers information about security, privacy, compliance offering, policies across Azure
Service Trust Portal STP hosts Compliance Manager service that publishes audit reports and other compliance reports
Compliance Manager is risk-assessment dashboard to track regulatory compliance activities
- provides recommendations only

monitor service health by collecting monitoring data from applications, OS, Azure resources, Azure subscriptions, Azure tenant
Application Insights: Monitor for Containers, Monitor for VM
Monitor can, send out alerts or autoscale
Provide visualizations: Dashboards, Views, Power BI
Some of the metrics require Diagnostic and Logs to be turned on for the VMs

Includes these views:
- Azure Status: global health of all services
- Service Health: dashboard of a particular service in the region it's running
- Resource Health: provides historical state of resources that help with diagnosis