How to Create Tags in Microsoft Azure

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Tags are name/value pairs that enable you to categorize resources and view consolidated billing by applying the same tag to multiple resources and resource groups - Microsoft Azure
Tags are metadata elements and key-value pairs that help to identify resources based on settings that are relevant to an organization.
They logically organise Azure resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups hierarchy into taxonomy or for better filtering, monitoring or either for querying a few scenarios.
Each tag consists of a name and a value pair.
Tags are very useful for rolling up billing information and their name is case insensitive, but their value pair is case sensitive.

Steps to Create Tags in Microsoft Azure

Step 1:

Create a Microsoft Azure account and login
Navigate to https://azure.microsoft.com/

Step 2:

Search and click on policy

Step 3:

Click on Assignments

Step 4:

Click on 'Assign Policy'

Step 5:

Click on 'Policy definition'

Step 6:

Search for 'Tag'
Click on 'Require a tag and its value on resources'
Add

Step 7:
Click on 'Parameters' to add your Tag Name and Tag Value

Step 8:

Tag Name: Name of Environment
Tag Value: Name of the company
Click 'Review + Create'

Step 9:

Create

Step 10:
Create a Storage Account and add Tag

Click Home to create a Storage Account

Step 11:

Create

Step 12:

Subscription: Choose your subscription
Resource Group: Choose a resource group if you already have one
Storage Account Name: Choose a unique name across all existing accounts in Azure
Region: Choose your region
Click on ' Tag' to add tag