Cloud Resource Design Guidance

As cloud usage scales, considerations for subscription design, management groups, and resource naming/tagging conventions have an impact on governance, operations management, and adoption patterns.

NOTE: Always work with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that introducing new patterns provides the intended value.

When working in an existing cloud environment, it is important to understand any current patterns and how they are used before making a change to them.

References

The following references can be used to understand the latest best practices in organizing cloud resources:

• Organizing Subscriptions
• Resource Tagging Decision Guide
• Resource Naming Conventions
• Recommended Azure Resource Abbreviations
• Organizing Dev/Test/Production Workloads

Tooling

• Azure Resource Naming Tool

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Last update: May 29, 2023