Managing and optimizing your Azure resources
When you choose Azure, you open the door to many different cloud opportunities. Scalable, pay-as-you-go virtual machines (VMs), geo-localized data storage, websites, queue management, and artificial intelligence are just some of Azure's capabilities. The control plane of Azure provides multiple tools to help you do this.
Azure Resource Manager
As a component of the Azure control pane, Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Azure. It lets you create, update, and delete resources in your own Azure space. Examples of Azure resources are VMs, storage accounts, web apps, databases, and virtual networks. As Azure resources proliferate, you can save time and effort by applying management actions across groups of resources, as well as to individual ones. These group-oriented actions can have multiple advantages:
- Prevention of security issues such as connections from multiple locations or from...