From the course: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Cert Prep: 2 Azure Architecture and Security

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Understand subscriptions

Understand subscriptions

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Understand subscriptions

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- [Kunal] We covered the Azure architecture up to this point. Now, we'll move on to the basic administration hierarchy in Azure, and that journey starts with subscriptions. A subscription is a unit of consolidated billing. In general, when you use a service in the cloud, you have to pay for it. A subscription is where the charges for all those services are put together in a single bill and sent to you through email. Imagine a shopping cart in the supermarket. You go around the aisles, put all the items you need in the shopping cart, and at the end, go to the billing counter to pay for whatever is in your cart. A subscription is pretty much the same. It's like the shopping cart, but for the cloud. You deploy whatever services you need to a subscription and then pay for it in a single bill every month. The typical billing cycle is monthly. This is the starting point for all customers who want to take their first step in adopting Azure for their environments. Remember, it all starts with…

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