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Azure operations can be divided into 2 categories: Control plane (or Management plane) - used to manage resources in azure subscriptions, e.g. creation of a virtual machine or a storage account All requests for control plane operations are sent to the Azure Resource Manager URL. For Azure global, the url is: https://management.azure.com Data plane - used to manage capabilties exposed by instances of resource types e.g. using remote desktop protocol (RDP) to interact with a virtual machine, or reading/writing data in a storage account.