We're diving into Azure for our student program and currently, we've set up resource groups for each student—about four resource groups per student to cover different modules. Since our whole team is new to Azure, I'm looking for advice on whether this setup is the best approach or if there are more efficient ways to organize resources. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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To avoid unexpected costs, it's essential to begin with governance and billing controls. Make sure students clean up their resources to prevent huge charges on invoices. Also, check out the Microsoft Learn for Educators program; it offers a lot of great resources and labs for teaching purposes!
We're already using Microsoft Learn quite a bit. I'm progressing through different learning paths and enrolled in Azure-related courses, but since we’ve started using Azure, none of us feel super confident yet.
You don’t need to create separate resources for each student—they can simply register for a school or learning account. If necessary, they can also grant you access to review their setups under their own subscriptions.
Right now, we're operating under one subscription with resource groups for all students, which was a last-minute decision for simplicity. The team did discuss the idea of having separate subscriptions. Can we enforce policies across multiple subscriptions, or would I need to apply them individually?
I'm keeping an eye on how students use resources until we can put governance policies in place. They're currently working on basic tasks, and we’ll be limiting their access to the lowest tiers for everything possible, also implementing automatic shutdown times.