Azure RBAC

Planted . Last tended .

Part of azure governance

Role based access control / giving something permissions at a certain scope when needed

Applies to all items in control plane (management groups,resource groups, resources)
can apply to some storage roles in data plane
Inherited

License

free to use

Limits

4000 per subscription
500 per management group
5000 per tenant for custom roles

Azure Roles
Azure RBAC Custom Roles

references:

RBAC overview
RBAC Limits

Updated August 25, 2026 at 14:30 . Thoughts? Email me.

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Types of Operations in Azure TIL

So in RBAC what azure roles apply to which plane - control or data
Azure Storage Account TIL
Azure Backup TIL

Azure RBAC and encryption
Azure ABAC TIL

RBAC may not be granular enough or we start to hit Azure RBAC#Limits
Governance Overview TIL
Azure Master TIL