Today I took another practical step in my Cloud Engineering and DevOps learning journey by creating my first Resource Group on Microsoft Azure.

As someone currently learning cloud computing and DevOps from scratch, this may seem like a small task, but it actually helped me understand how cloud infrastructure is organized in real-world environments.

In the screenshot above, I was working inside the Azure Portal while creating a Resource Group called “Hagital-Resource-Group” and selecting the “South Africa North” region.

This simple setup exposed me to important cloud concepts such as subscriptions, regions, resource organization, and infrastructure management.

What is a Resource Group?

A Resource Group in Azure acts like a container that holds related cloud resources together.

For example, a company can keep:

virtual machines

databases

storage accounts

applications

virtual networks

inside one Resource Group instead of managing them separately.

This makes resources easier to organize, monitor,…