Built-in Roles

Azure offers various built-in roles that you can use for assigning permissions to users, groups, and applications. RBAC offers the following three standard roles that you can assign to each Azure resource:

  • Owner: Users in this role can manage everything and can create new resources
  • Contributor: Users in this role can manage everything just like users in the owner role, but they can't assign access to others
  • Reader: Users in this role can read everything, but are not allowed to make any changes

Besides the standard roles, each Azure resource also has roles that are scoped to particular resources. For instance, you can assign users, groups, or applications to the SQL Security Manager, where they can manage all security-related ...

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