Consistency in naming Azure resources is essential whether you are just getting started in the cloud or have a mature team and platforms. Defining and enforcing naming conventions for resources can help improve resource discovery, cost management, automation, and organization of resources within your Microsoft Azure tenant(s).

In order to help make the information shared by Microsoft in their recommended abbreviations for resource types and naming rules and restrictions for Azure resources documentation simpler to digest, I created a quick visual to map these documents together.

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