What is the relation between all those MS Azure Terms and Structures?

Question

Currently i am trying to dig deeper into the organizational/entity structure of ms azure. All I find online in discussions and official ms documentation only shows parts of the bigger picture but never the underlying relationships between them.

I try to formulate statements which I ask you to correct in case they are wrong:

I log in to the azure portal using an email adress witch is called account

In the azure portal I am acting in the context of a directory

The account i use to log in is associated with an identity in the directory

A directory belongs to a tenant

Signing up for MS Azure using my Microsoft Account will create a Tenant

A Subscription I create is assoiciated with but not created/stored within a directory (not with a tenant)

A Subscription I create is associated with the Account I am currently logged in, called Azure Account

A Management Group will be created within the directory per default, called Root Management Group

When no other Management Group is created, all Subscriptions I create are associated with this Root Management Group

Answer 1

@Till Györfi

All of your assumptions are right, however, Directory and Tenant are very similar and are used almost interchangeably. Here is a thread that provides more information on Directory & Subscription- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/157002/azure-ad-teminologies.html

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