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What are tags?

Tags are name/value pairs of text data that you can apply to resources and resource groups. Tags allow you to associate custom details about your resource, in addition to the standard Azure properties a resource has the following properties:

• department (like finance, marketing, and more)
• environment (prod, test, dev)
• cost center
• life cycle and automation (like shutdown and startup of virtual machines)

A resource can have up to 50 tags. The name is limited to 512 characters for all types of resources except storage accounts, which have a limit of 128 characters. The tag value is limited to 256 characters for all types of resources. Tags aren't inherited from parent resources. Not all resource types support tags, and tags can't be applied to classic resources.

Use resource locks to protect resources

Resource locks are a setting that can be applied to any resource to block modification or deletion. Resource locks can set to either Delete or Read-only. Delete will allow all operations against the resource but block the ability to delete it. Read-only will only allow read activities to be performed against it, blocking any modification or deletion of the resource. Resource locks can be applied to subscriptions, resource groups, and to individual resources, and are inherited when applied at higher levels.

Products and services in Azure are arranged by category, with various resources that you can provision. You select the Azure products and services that fit your requirements, and your account is billed according to Azure's pay-for-what-you-use model.

For example, a single virtual machine that you provision in Azure might have the following meters tracking its usage:

• Compute Hours
• IP Address Hours
• Data Transfer In
• Data Transfer Out
• Standard Managed Disk
• Standard Managed Disk Operations
• Standard IO-Disk
• Standard IO-Block Blob Read
• Standard IO-Block Blob Write
• Standard IO-Block Blob Delete

Azure Advisor is a free service built into Azure that provides recommendations on high availability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost. Advisor analyzes your deployed services and looks for ways to improve your environment across each of these areas.