Azure cloud resource hierarchy

First, let us review the AWS hierarchy. An AWS account is an isolated unit for all the AWS services, such as EC2 instances and S3 buckets. AWS Billing is implemented at the AWS account level to charge for all AWS cloud resource consumption. When a new AWS service resource is created, it is always created within an AWS account. An AWS organization represents an organizational entity such as a company, and it includes multiple AWS accounts. In the AWS resource hierarchy, between the organization and the accounts are Organization Units (OUs), which may represent departments, teams, or projects within the company – each OU has one or multiple AWS accounts.

In contrast, a Google Cloud project is the isolated unit for Google Cloud resources and can be associated with a billing account that manages the Google Cloud resource consumption costs. Typically, there is a GCP organization, which has multiple projects, and between the organization and the projects...