Clarification on Federating with Azure AD and B2C Setup

Question

So I understand that you need Azure B2C to set up federating your Azure and Microsoft 365 federation with some other IdP like Google. Do you need a paid version of Azure to get B2C (create a tenant)? We have the free version of Azure AD I believe. But that is different from actual regular Azure right? (which I'm not sure we have, or if we do it's a limited version). Someone else in our company hastily set up an account before I joined and they have since left so I don't have much info on what was done.

I tried going through a guide to get through the steps to set it up, but I'm noticing certain options seem to be disabled for us. For example, when I'm supposed to go to Subscriptions and get the error:

"Your current access does not include permissions to view any subscriptions."

I also verified that my account is a Global admin and a User Account admin, and that it should have the right to create tenants... when I click the Add option under subscriptions, I get offers for Free Trial for Azure, Pay as you go, Azure for Students, etc.

But if I don't have Azure, then how can I even be logging into the Azure portal and doing all this? I'm confused. Also, if it isn't already apparent, I'm new to all of this. Up until now I've merely been managing the Office 365 admin portal and that's it. So I'm messing with a lot of things that I don't have full understanding of yet.

These are the guides I was talking about by the way:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/identity-provider-google?pivots=b2c-user-flow

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/tutorial-create-tenant

Answer 1

Let's take a step back here. What are you trying to actually accomplish? You have Azure AD tenant with M365. Now what do you want to do and why?