Practical guide to organizing Azure resources
Organizing Azure resources is one of those rare tasks that sounds straightforward until you actually start doing it.
Suddenly you’re trying to balance cost allocation, security boundaries, governance rules, domain ownership, deployment pipelines, and team autonomy. All while the number of services grows faster than your architecture diagram can keep up.
If designing cloud boundaries feels like organizing a city while it’s still being built, that’s because it is.
And like any good city, Azure needs structure: districts, buildings, addresses, zoning rules, and a way to understand who owns what.
Why? Because moving buildings (or Azure resources) is not always easy.
This guide takes a practical look at how to design resource boundaries in Azure—using concepts from Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Team Topologies, CAF, Well-Architected Framework.