Azure Group as a Container

What is a Microsoft Azure Resource Group?

An Azure resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. You can include all the resources for the solution within a resource group or choose to manage only specific resources as a group. Think of it as a way to organize and group resources based on their lifecycle or purpose. When you create a resource group, you’re specifying where metadata about those resources is stored. For example, you can create a resource group for a web application that includes virtual machines, storage accounts, and a database—all neatly organized together

When can you delete a resource group from Azure?

To delete a resource group, the following are the needed steps to be taken;

-Subscription: one need to have an existing subscription after which you will have access to the delete action for the Microsoft on the Azure resource manager.

The next step would be to remove any underlying resource lock and backup data. i.e;

1. All the nested resources on the resource group get deleted first.

2. Resources that manage other resources are deleted next.

3. The resource group then get deleted after the previous two.

What is an Azure region?

An Azure region is a geographical area in which one or more physical azure data centers resides.

An Azure region is also a set of data centers deployed within an interval-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

What is an availability zone?

Azure availability zones are physically and logically separated data centers with their own independent power source, network and cooling.

This simply means separated group of data centers within a region.

They are designed such that if one zone experiences an outage, then regional services, capacity and high availability are supported by the remaining zones.

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