If you are talking about Azure subscription which are categorized based on environments then -
Dev subscription - will contain Azure resources which are used by developers for development work and unit testing purpose
Test subscription - Developers can deploy their changes to this and perform end to end testing. This is treated as pre-production subscription
Production subscription - This will have final changes and production resources.. where developer will have no access or just read access
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