What is the difference between portal.azure and aad.azure ?

Question

Hello,

as a member of tenant, I can see users in "portal.azure" and "aad.azure" portal for the same directory. Then what is the difference between these two portals?

Thanks,

Answer 1

anonymous userD-1603
Portal.azure.com is Microsoft's cloud platform portal for various cloud services like Compute, networking, Identity, Security, AI etc You can do a lot of things if you have a Azure subscriptions like

Whereas aad.portal.azure.com will give you access to only Azure Active Directory related services :

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Answer 2

With portal.azure.com, you can manage all azure resources (Vm's, network, azure ad, SQL, etc.). However with aad.portal.azure.com, it only shows you azure ad for your tenant and only allows managing resources in Azure AD (users, groups, devices, enterprise apps, security logs, etc.)