When you deploy a template, you specify a resource group that will contain the resources. Before running the deployment command, create the resource group or during deployment also we can create the resource group. If you try to deploy your own template in the portal, there are 3 available options - "Subscription", "Resource Group", "Location". Resource group is the only one of the three options available in this list of answers.Location". https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/blob/master/101-vm-simple- windows/azuredeploy.json