Azure Resource Manager

Simplify how you manage your app resources

The Resource Manager processes all requests towards an Azure Service.

It first authenticates and authorizes this request and then passes the request to the according Azure Service which then fullfills the request.

The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) replaced the older Azure Service Manager (ASM). The main differences between ARM and ASM seem to be that ARM allows to manage resources in resource groups and that ARM provides a (JSON-based?) API for provisioning resources in Azure.