# URL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/management-groups/overview
- Provide a [[governance scope]] above subscriptions.
- [[Azure subscription]]s are organized into [[Azure management group]]s and governance conditions you apply cascade by inheritance to all associated subscriptions
- ALL subscriptions in a single [[Azure management group]] must trust the same [[Azure Active Directory | Azure AD]] tenant.
- 10,000 management groups can be supported in a single directory
- An [[Azure management group]] tree can support up to six levels of depth (not including the Root level or subscription level)
- Each [[Azure management group]] and subscription can only support ONE parent
![[hierarchy of Azure resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups#Management Group Hierarchy]]
# [[Azure role-based access control (RBAC)]]
![[Azure RBAC for Management Groups Image.png]]