Azure Subscription Account

Question

Can an Azure subscription be managed by using Microsoft account only?

Answer 1

Hi @Shailendra Soni ,

Thank you for asking this question on the Microsoft Q&A Platform.

An Azure subscription is a logical container used to provision resources in Azure. It holds the details of all your resources like virtual machines (VMs), databases, and more. When you create an Azure resource like a VM, you identify the subscription it belongs to. As you use the VM, the usage of the VM is aggregated and billed monthly.
A bit of background of Azure AD, Tenant and Subscription.

a tenant is associated with a single identity (person, company, or organization) and can own one or several subscriptions
a subscription is linked to a payment setup and each subscription will result in a separate bill
in every subscription, you can add virtual resources (VM, storage, network, ...)
Every tenant is linked to a single Azure AD instance, which is shared with all tenant's subscriptions

Resources from one subscription are isolated from resources in other subscriptions

An owner of a tenant can decide to have multiple subscriptions:

• when Subscriptions limits are reached
• to use different payment methods
• to isolate resources between different departments, projects, regional offices, and so on.

With regards to the account for Azure Subscription please check this article.4-multiple-subscriptions

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Answer 2

Hi @Shailendra Soni

Thank you for reaching out.

I would like to confirm that any user having Microsoft or Work/School account should be able to manage an Azure Subscription along as they have relevant RBAC or classic administrator role assigned on the subscription.

For reference on how to assign RBAC or classic administrator roles, please review the below documentation.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/classic-administrators
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-portal-subscription-admin

I hope this answers your query.

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