Organising and Protecting Azure Resources: A Guide to Tags and Locks

Organizing and Protecting Azure Resources: A Guide to Tags and Locks Introduction As your cloud environment grows, keeping track of your resources and preventing accidental data loss becomes a top priority. Azure provides two simple yet powerful tools for this: Tags and Resource Locks . Tags allow you to categorize resources for better billing and organization, while Locks provide a safety net against accidental deletion. In this guide, we will walk through applying these management features to a Virtual Machine and a Virtual Network. Add Tags and a Resource Lock to a VM Login to Microsoft Azure at https://portal.azure.com . From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual machines . Select virtual machines under services. Select the guided-project-vm virtual machine. From the menu pane, select Tags . On one line for Name enter Department and for Value enter Customer Service . On the next line, for Name enter Purpose and for Value enter FTP Server . Select Apply . Add