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selectMicrosoft Azurelast verified 2026-07-30
Servicesresource
CredentialsAZURE_TENANT_ID AZURE_CLIENT_ID AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
PermissionsMicrosoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read
Fan-out: subscription - one call per subscription when swept tenant-wide. One list call per subscription when swept tenant-wide

Azure resource group lifecycle

Lists the resource groups in a subscription. The resource group is the container every other Azure resource belongs to and the unit of bulk deletion, so this is the entry point for both inventory and teardown.

Query

SELECT name, location, provisioning_state, id, tags
FROM azure.resource.resource_groups
WHERE subscription_id = '{{subscription_id}}';

Creating a resource group

Body properties are supplied as plain columns - location here - with no prefix on the column name:

INSERT INTO azure.resource.resource_groups(
resource_group_name,
subscription_id,
location
)
SELECT 'my-resource-group', '{{subscription_id}}', 'eastus';

Deleting a resource group

Deletion is asynchronous and cascades to every resource inside the group:

DELETE FROM azure.resource.resource_groups
WHERE resource_group_name = 'my-resource-group'
AND subscription_id = '{{subscription_id}}';

Notes

subscription_id is a required routing parameter on effectively every Azure resource, and resource_group_name narrows a list to a single group. Body properties are passed as plain columns: this provider applies a naive request-body transform, so location and properties are written directly with no data__ prefix - the data__location and data__properties form used by older Azure examples fails with InvalidResource. Deleting a group is asynchronous and returns immediately; the group reports provisioning_state Deleting for some minutes while its contents are removed, so poll the list query rather than assuming completion. A resource group's location is only metadata for the group itself - resources inside it may live in other regions, which is useful when one region has no capacity for a given SKU.

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