title: Why are Azure Resource Groups associated with a specific region?
body: <p>I'm new to Azure architecture and am trying to understand why Azure Resource Groups, which are logical deployment buckets for applications built on Azure, are associated with a region when they are defined. </p>
  
  <p>At first I thought it was to provide global distribution for disaster recovery or geographic redundancy, but then I realized that a single Resource Group can contain web apps in different regions, which can provide those features via Traffic Manager. I suppose that using separate Resource Groups would help better identify which resources are in which region, but other than for organizational purposes, I can't understand what the region definition for Resource Groups implies.</p>
  
  <p>(edit: removed general advice query to be more focused)</p>