Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

In this course you’ll learn the basic elements of Azure, subscriptions, tenants, availability- and failover zones and more.

You will learn how to set these up for yourself or your client so that you have the best and most cost-effective solution to build on.

Also, you’ll learn about Azure Resource Manager and Azure Bicep. And you’ll discover other tools to work with Azure, including the Azure CLI, PowerShell, Data Studio, Storage Explorer, VS Code and Visual Studio.

On top of that, you’ll learn how to think about costs in the cloud and how to reduce them.

What will you learn?

1. The basic Microsoft Azure resource hierarchy

2. Azure Subscription and Support plan types

3. Estimate Azure costs

4. What Azure Active Directory B2B and B2C are

5. How to grant users permissions

6. What Availability zones, Fault- and update domains are

7. What Azure Resource Groups are

8. Management Groups and Azure Blueprint

9. What Azure Policy is

10. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

11. Tools to work with Azure, including CLI, PowerShell, Cloud Shell

12. How VS Code and Visual Studio work with Azure

13. Data tools for Azure

14. The things that cost money in the cloud

15. Analyzing and reporting costs in Azure

16. Ways to reduce costs in Azure

Who is this course for?

1. People interested in cloud computing and Microsoft Azure

2. When You know what cloud computing is and What Microsoft Azure is

3. A great refresher for experienced people

4. Great for software developers, architects and IT pros

After taking this course, you'll understand how Azure works and how you can design you Azure resource hierarchy, including subscriptions, management groups, resource groups and policies.