Azure Grouping Resources

DateVersionChanges
2021-11-21v1.0.0
2025-10-17V1.1.0Updated the convention and moved to Klabbet Blog.

1 Subscriptions

Considerations for creating a new Azure subscription for your resources.

1.1 You MUST create a new subscription when resources have a new invoice recipient, now or in the future.

1.2 You MUST create a new subscription for separating resources in different hosting environments, Azure Regions, clients or projects.

1.3 Subscriptions MUST follow the Azure Naming Convention.

2 Resource Groups

Considerations for creating a new Azure resource group for your resources.

2.1 You MUST create a new resource group for resources belonging to a new project.

2.2 You MUST create a new resource group for resources belonging to a new component.

2.3 You MUST gather resources sharing the same life-cycle, in the same resource group.

2.4 Resource groups MUST NOT be shared between projects, components or environments.

2.5 Resource group names MUST follow the Azure Naming Convention.