How to Change or Switch Azure Subscription in PowerShell?

Connect to Microsoft Azure PowerShell

First, you need connect to Microsoft Azure PowerShell, there’re two ways to run PowerShell commands in Microsoft Azure:

Method 1: From Azure PowerShell modules installed in a computer.

Method 2: From Azure Cloud Shell using browsers.

Change or Switch Azure Subscription in PowerShell

To change the azure subscription using PowerShell, we can use the Select-AzSubscription command. When you use this command, you can use either the subscription ID, Subscription Name, or the Tenant ID.

With Subscription Name

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName 'Visual Studio'

With TenantID

Select-AzSubscription -Tenant 'XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXX'

With Subscription ID

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId 'XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXX'

Sometimes on console messages will appear that one or more subscriptions are active. In that case, you can switch the other subscription using the Set-AzContext command and you can use subscription ID or the Name for it.

Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName "Visual Studio"