Updated: January 2, 2024 (January 2, 2024)
RoadmapAzure Deployment Hierarchies
Enterprises must use Azure deployment hierarchies for administration needs such as billing, access control, and application of policies that restrict how resources are deployed. Organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EAs) should use two Azure hierarchy technologies: one that is primarily for billing administration and one that is primarily for technical administration and governance. The former was previously only available using the EA portal, but it is now available in the regular Azure portal for most customers.
EA Hierarchy vs. Management Groups
Customer-defined Azure deployment hierarchies provide structure to management processes such as billing reporting and accountability, access control, and deployment policy compliance. For example, assigning Azure accounts to departments within a hierarchy simplifies creating billing reports broken out by each department for internal chargeback; and organizing Azure subscriptions into groups within a hierarchy allows a policy (such as a restriction on the size of VMs that can be created) to be applied to a group of subscriptions with a single action.
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