how to create a second account with same email

Question

I am teaching a course. I have an Azure account (which is free for now). I want to create a second account, which will be billable, which my class (~ 55 students) can use. It should be under my email, however. I tried creating a second account but it seemed to just add the credit card info to my existing account. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Hello @Daniel Yellin - I will suggest to use the same Azure account and manage your students account through EntraID. Here are simple steps if you can try

1. Login to Entra Admin portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/#home)
2. Crate a Group with your training name (e.g. ABCTraining)
3. Create users manually or through template
4. Add users to the above group
5. Now go to your azure portal
6. Create a resource group with above training name
7. Click on the resource group IAM
8. Provide specific role access to your EntraID group.

With the above steps you can control your users permission and no need to create a separate Azure account. Hope it might be one of your option to try.