Microsoft Azure Naming Conventions

Accurately representing and naming your resources is essential for security purposes.

In a security incident, it is critical to identify affected systems quickly, what functions those systems support, and the potential business impact.

A useful naming convention composes resource names from important information about each resource. A well-chosen name helps you quickly identify the resource's type, its associated workload, its deployment environment, and the Azure region hosting it.

Some resource names, such as PaaS services with public endpoints or virtual machine DNS labels, have global scopes, so they must be unique across the Azure platform.

There's no one size fits all to Azure naming conventions, it needs to suit your organisation, however, it is worth noting that there are limitations to naming rules to Azure resources.

• Naming rules and restrictions for Azure resources
• Define your naming convention
• Deploy Azure Naming Tool into an Azure WebApp as a container

The use of these limitations and scopes have been used to determine the following naming conventions across associated resources.

Casing	Name Format
Lowercase	{organizationName}-{component}-{resourceTypeshortCode}-{regionShortCode}-{environmentlongcode}

Naming Convention Examples

Environment	Application Name	Azure Region	Azure Service	Example Name
Production	application1	Australia East	App Service	company-application1-asvc-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	App Service Environment	company-application1-ase-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	App Service Plan	company-application1-asp-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Application Gateway	company-application1-agw-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Automation Account	company-application1-aum-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Availability Set	company-application1-avs-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster	company-application1-arck-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure Arc enabled server	company-application1-arcs-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure Cosmos DB database	company-application1-cosmos-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure Data Factory	company-application1-adf-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure Search	company-application1-srch-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure SQL Database	company-application1-sqldb-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure SQL Elastic Pool	company-application1-sqlep-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Azure SQL Server	company-application1-sql-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Container registry	company-application1-cr-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Cosmos DB	company-application1-cdb-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Function App	company-application1-func-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Gateway connection	company-application1-cn-au-e-prod
Test	application1	Australia East	IoT Central	company-application1-iotc-au-e-test
Test	application1	Australia East	Key Vault	company-application1-kv-au-e-test
Test	application1	Australia East	Load Balancer	company-application1-lb-au-e-test
Test	application1	Australia East	Local Network Gateway	company-application1-lgw-au-e-test
Test	application1	Australia East	Log Analytics workspace	company-application1-la-au-e-test
Production	application1	Australia East	MySQL database	company-application1-mysql-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Network Interface	company-application1-nic-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Network Security Group	company-application1-nsg-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Network Security Group Rule	company-application1-nsg-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Public IP Address	company-application1-pip-au-e-prod
Production		Australia East	Recovery Services vault	company-rsv-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Recovery Services Vault - Backup policies	company-application1-rsvp-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Resource Group	company-application1-rg-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Route table	company-application1-route-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Runbooks	company-application1-run-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Service Bus - Namespace	company-application1-sbns-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	SQL Data Warehouse	company-application1-sqldw-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	SQL Managed Instance	company-application1-sqlmi-au-e-prod
Production	App1	Australia East	Storage Account	company-pp1-stg-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Subnet	company-application1-snet-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Subscription	company-application1-sub-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Traffic Manager Profile	company-application1-tmp-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	User defined route (UDR)	company-application1-udr-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Virtual machine scale set	company-application1-vmss-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Virtual Network	company-application1-vn-au-e-prod
Production	application1	Australia East	Virtual Network Gateway	company-application1-vngw-au-e-prod

Resource Group

Environment	Application Name	Azure Region	Azure Service	Example Name
Production	application1	Australia East	Resource Group	company-application1-rg-au-e-prod

Resource Type Codes

Resource Type	Short Code	Scope	Character Limit
App Service	asvc	Global	40
App Service Environment	ase	Resource Group	38
App Service Plan	asp	Resource Group	40
Application Gateway	agw	Resource Group	80
Automation Account	aum	Resource Group	50
Availability Set	avs	Resource Group	80
Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster	arck	Resource Group	63
Azure Arc enabled server	arcs	Resource Group	15
Azure Cosmos DB database	cosmos	Global	63
Azure Data Factory	adf	Global	63
Azure Search	srch	Global	60
Azure SQL Database	sqldb	Server	128
Azure SQL Elastic Pool	sqlep	Server	128
Azure SQL Server	sql	Global	63
Container registry	cr	Global	50
Cosmos DB	cdb	Global	50
Function App	func	Global	40
Gateway connection	cn	Resource Group	80
IoT Central	iotc	Global	63
Key Vault	kv	Global	24
Load Balancer	lb	Resource Group	80
Local Network Gateway	lgw	Resource Group	80
Log Analytics workspace	la	Global	24
MySQL database	mysql	Global	63
Network Interface	nic	Resource Group	80
Network Security Group	nsg	Resource Group	80
Network Security Group Rule	nsg	Resource Group	80
Public IP Address	pip	Resource Group	80
Recovery Services vault	rsv	Resource Group	50
Recovery Services Vault - Backup policies	rsvp	vault	50
Resource Group	rg	Global	64
Route table	route	Resource Group	80
Runbooks	run	Automation Account	63
Service Bus - Namespace	sbns	Global	50
SQL Data Warehouse	sqldw	Global	63
SQL Managed Instance	sqlmi	Global	63
Storage Account	stg	Global	24
Subnet	snet	Virtual Network	80
Subscription	sub	Account	64
Traffic Manager Profile	tmp	Resource Group	63
User defined route (UDR)	udr	Resource Group	80
Virtual Machine	vm	Resource Group	15
Virtual machine scale set	vmss	Resource Group	15
Virtual Network	vn	Resource Group	63
Virtual Network Gateway	vngw	Resource Group	80

Environment Names

Environment Name	Long Code
Development	dev
Test	test
Staging	stg
Production	prod

Azure Regions

Azure Region	Geo Short Code	Datacentre Short Code	Short Code
East US	us	e	us-e
East US 2	us	e2	us-e2
Central US	us	c	us-c
North Central US	us	cn	us-cn
West Central US	us	cw	us-cw
West US	us	w	us-w
West US 2	us	w2	us-w2
Australia East	au	e	au-e
Australia Southeast	au	se	au-se
Australia Central	au	c	au-c
New Zealand North	nz	n	nz-n