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Describe Azure resources and resource groups

Describe Azure resources and resource groups

- [Instructor] All right. Let's shift gears a little bit and let's talk about Azure Resources and resource groups. An Azure resource is any entity that you create within Azure. A resource can be something like a web app, a virtual machine, a database, storage for data. There are many different types of Azure resources, far too many for me to list here. Now, each Azure resource is created within what's called a resource group. And a resource group is a logical container designed to help with resource management. Resource groups are a good way to control costs because they allow you to organize your resources in a logical way. They also make it easy to delete a large number of resources when you don't need them anymore. So for example, when I'm working on creating training or writing a book on Azure I'll often create a lot of Azure resources. And when I'm finished with my project I can easily delete all those resources I…

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