Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

Resource groups

A resource group is a logical container that functions as a unit of management. With resource groups, you can do the following:

• Manage security policies with access control
• See and manage the costs of the resources in the group
• Export and import resource groups 
• Delete a resource group and all the resources it holds atomically

Whenever you create a resource in Azure, you need to create or select a resource group that the resource will be created in:

You can later inspect the resource groups you have and their content through the button in the left-hand side menu, and is shown in the following screenshot:

Alternatively, you ...