20533 What is an Azure Tenant

20533 What is an Azure Tenant

When you look at your Azure subscription you will see a listing for "Tenants"

You can create multiple Azure AD instances under a single subscription.  This might be useful in a shared services situation or for separating different business units

Here are a few supporting articles:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/active-directory-howto-tenant/

https://www.simple-talk.com/cloud/security-and-compliance/azure-active-directory-part-1-an-introduction/

https://morgansimonsenblog.azurewebsites.net/2015/10/27/how-to-find-the-guid-of-your-azure-ad-tenant/