How to create an Azure resource group from the Azure portal

Azure Resouce Group is a logical group of resources that includes virtual machines, databases, web applications, and storage accounts.

The resource group stores metadata about the resources that it contains. The location of the metadata is specified in the “location” part of the resource.

Creating a resource group

• Log in to Azure portal.
• Search for “resource group” in the search bar .
• Select “Resource groups”.

• It will display all the resource groups under your subscription.

• Click on + Create.
• It will open a form to create a resource group.
• Select your subscription.
• Provide a unique name for Resource group.
• Select the Region.

• If you want to provide tags, you can do it by clicking Next otherwise click on Review + Create.
• Azure will take some time to validate.
• If validation is successful, then click on Create.
• If validation fails, check the error and resolve it.
• You can check the progress in the notifications.
• After your resource group is created, you can check it in Resource Groups as shown in the second image.