Everyone is Owner on the Azure subscription
Azure RBAC works on scope (management group, subscription, resource group, resource). Owner everywhere is too much.
support/cloud-platforms/azure-rbac-basicssteps: 4
Try this first
- Grant Owner only at subscription level to 1 or 2 people
- Developers get Contributor on the resource group of their project
- Reader for people who only need monitoring
- User Access Administrator only to someone who delegates roles
When to bring us in
For growing orgs, use management groups and Azure Policy for consistent assignment.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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