I Created an Azure User, Gave It Global Admin Access, Revoked It, and Tested Azure IAM — Here’s What I Learned

As part of my Cloud Engineering and DevOps learning journey, I recently decided to go beyond theory and start practicing Identity and Access Management (IAM) directly inside Microsoft Azure.

I wanted to understand how organizations manage users, permissions, administrative access, and security in real cloud environments. Instead of just reading about Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC, I performed a complete hands-on lab from start to finish.

In this lab, I:

created a new Azure user

configured Microsoft Authenticator