An enterprise cloud team is planning the deployment of a new multi-tier application. The database virtual machines will be deployed in the East US region, and the web servers will be deployed in the West US region. The team wants to group all of these resources into a single resource group named 'app-rg' (located in East US) for unified lifecycle management. Additionally, they plan to create a nested resource group inside 'app-rg' specifically to apply separate permissions for the database administrators. Which of the following statements correctly evaluates the validity of this planned configuration?
- The database and web server resources can be deployed to 'app-rg' despite being in different regions, but the nested resource group cannot be created because resource groups cannot be nested in Azure.Answer
- BThe web server resources cannot be deployed to 'app-rg' because all resources must reside in the same Azure region as their containing resource group.
- CThe planned configuration is fully valid because Azure supports nesting resource groups up to access management boundaries.
- DThe nested resource group can be created, but it must be deployed in the West US region to match the region of the web servers.
Answer
The database and web server resources can be deployed to 'app-rg' despite being in different regions, but the nested resource group cannot be created because resource groups cannot be nested in Azure.
The correct answer identifies that Azure allows resources to be in different regions than the resource group they reside in, but resource groups cannot be nested. This satisfies both constraints of the scenario: the multi-region resources are allowed in a single resource group, but the nested resource group proposal is invalid.
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Azure Resource Group nesting and location constraints
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