What is the difference between an Azure tenant and Azure subscription?

azure azure-active-directory
DMQ95 picture DMQ95 · Nov 15, 2017 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

I am struggling to distinguish how an Azure Subscription and an Azure tenant are different? I have tried figuring it out using examples but each time I come to the conclusion that they are the same thing in a way? If a tenant is a dedicated instance of the Azure AD service that an organization receives and owns when it signs up for a Microsoft cloud service, then is that not what a subscription is too?

Answer

4c74356b41 picture 4c74356b41 · Nov 15, 2017

Azure tenant is a directory, subscription is an object that represents a "folder" that you can put resources in. Subscriptions are tied to tenants. so 1 tenant can have many subscriptions, but not vice versa.

Link:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits

Related questions

How to get the azure account tenant Id?

My question is: Is it possible to get the azure active directory tenant id without using powershell command? I found this two blogs and with this help, I'm already able to get the tenant ID and subscriptions ID from powershell. …

Read More
How to validate Azure AD security token?

The following code gives me Azure AD security token, I need to validate that token is valid or not. How to achieve this? // Get OAuth token using client credentials string tenantName = "mytest.onmicrosoft.com"; string authString = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/" + …

Read More
Graph API - Insufficient privileges to complete the operation

When trying to access the Graph Service Client using I am receiving the error : Code: Authorization_RequestDenied Message: Insufficient privileges to complete the operation. After researching this error the most common solution was to set the permissions for the API. …

Read More