Estimate Azure costs with the pricing calculator by comparing regions, vm options, bandwidth, storage, and transactions, and export to Excel for sharing.

Explore how high availability maintains uptime during planned and unplanned outages through redundancy, gradual deployments, rollback, health monitoring, and multi-region disaster recovery planning.

Understand elasticity in cloud computing through auto-scaling that monitors metrics like CPU utilization, scales resources up or down to meet demand, and reduces waste.

Discover how reliability ensures high quality service through availability and recoverability, leveraging Azure features, auto scale, multi-region deployments, backups, predictability, and continuous monitoring with health probes.

Explore predictability as a pillar of cloud platforms, and learn how auto scaling, load balancing, and cost management tools enable forecasting and controlling cloud performance and expenses.

Understand how cloud security, guided by international standards and a shared responsibility model, safeguards data with Azure Policy, Azure Blueprint, Azure AD, RBAC, and encryption at rest and in transit.

Define and enforce governance policies across cloud operations to meet HIPAA and GDPR standards using Azure policy, blueprint, tagging, RBAC, and management groups.

Master cloud manageability by automating resource provisioning with templates and scripting, monitoring with Azure Monitor and alerts, and governing resources via portal, CLI, REST APIs, and Cloud Shell.

Explore Azure serverless concepts, where you run code on a consumption-based platform that auto-scales and charges only for usage, with options like DTU, vCore, and serverless SQL.

Explore Azure regions and region pairs, including data residency and backups, and examine sovereign regions such as Azure government, China, and the secret government cloud.

Understand how availability zones are physically separate data centers within a region, with independent power and networking, and differentiate zonal, zone-redundant, and always available services.

Explore how Azure subscriptions serve as billing boundaries, house resources in resource groups, and enable role-based access control across management groups with plans like free, pay-as-you-go, and enterprise credits.

Organize and govern multiple Azure subscriptions through management groups, enabling centralized policy enforcement, RBAC inheritance, and governance from the root to lower groups.

Explore Azure compute services, including virtual machines, scale sets, app services, and containers, plus Azure Virtual Desktop, to run code and host applications in the cloud.

Learn to scale virtual machines with VM scale sets by scaling up or scaling out, using a load balancer and elasticity to meet demand while saving costs.

Understand how availability sets and proximity groups manage multiple virtual machines behind a load balancer, balancing fault domains and update domains, SLAs, and inter-server performance trade-offs.

Discover cloud-native compute in Azure with app services as a PaaS alternative to full servers and deployment slots. Explore containers, container images, and Azure virtual desktop.

Explore Azure functions, small cloud code triggered by HTTP, timer, or blob events. Operate on a serverless consumption model with durable functions and flexible hosting.

Learn how Azure networking connects virtual networks via regional and global peering, uses private DNS for internal names, and secures links with VPN gateways and Express Route.

Explore public versus private endpoints in Azure, including public access with authentication, service endpoints over the backbone, and private endpoints using private IPs via Azure Private Link for isolation.

This live Azure demo shows deploying a Windows Server VM (B2 Ms) with a public IP, connecting via remote desktop, and turning it into a web server with IIS.

Follow a live demo showing how to create an Azure web app, choose subscription and resource group, select runtime and region, and set up a basic plan with continuous deployment.

Demonstrate deploying containers in Azure using three container-focused services, from Kubernetes (AKS) for enterprise-grade orchestration to Container Instances for quick, single-node demos, with a hello world example.

Showcases Azure container apps as a serverless platform for microservices and event-driven apps, with auto scaling to zero, revisions, and traffic splitting for blue-green deployments.

Explore Azure storage options, comparing unmanaged storage, GPV2 general purpose storage, disk and file storage, and access tiers, then evaluate premium and data link alternatives for high-demand workloads.

Learn about Azure blob storage in containers for unstructured data, with region, redundancy options (lrs, zrs, grs), and access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive) for cost and retrieval tradeoffs.

Learn how to create a standard blob storage account in the portal, choose redundancy, configure networking, encryption, and security settings, and review before creation.

Move large data between Azure storage accounts efficiently with AzCopy, using SAS tokens and Cloud Shell, avoiding local downloads and egress fees, even across subscriptions.

Explore Azure file storage, a true hierarchical cloud file system that supports SMB and NFS, can mount like a drive, and enables lift-and-shift migration with file sync and cloud tiering.

Define identity as the digital representation of people, apps, or devices and explain Entra ID authentication with OAuth 2, OpenID, and SAML.

Explore how Microsoft Entra ID secures authentication for custom and third-party apps, supports social logins, and integrates with on-premises Active Directory and Azure services to streamline management and security.

Distinguish authentication from authorization and explore how identity checks prove who you are, while permissions govern what you can do, with examples like multifactor, biometrics, and role-based access.

Discover how Azure external identities enable B2B and B2C, using guest invitations, own credentials, and social logins to securely access resources with single sign-on, MFA, and conditional access.

Discover single sign on with entra ID, using a token to access many apps after one login, with multifactor authentication and conditional access for Microsoft 365 and third-party apps.

Learn how Azure AD conditional access evaluates login risk using signals like user, location, device type, and activity, then allows access, prompts for extra verification, or blocks access.

Understand multifactor authentication (MFA) and the three factors—something you know, something you have, something you are—and how it strengthens identity security. Explore methods like authenticator apps, biometrics, and hardware tokens.

Explore passwordless authentication as a secure, convenient alternative to passwords and MFA, using gestures, PINs, fingerprints, or facial recognition, with data stored on-device and optional Bluetooth proximity auto-lock.

Explore factors that influence Azure costs, including resource type, service tier, region, licensing, bandwidth, idle resources, and cost-saving options like pay-as-you-go, reserved, and spot instances.

Explore the Azure pricing calculator to estimate costs for virtual machines, App Service, and SQL databases, compare locations, operating systems, reservations, and hour-by-hour versus consumption pricing.

Explore how to use Azure cost management to track spending, analyze invoices, forecast monthly spend, and set budgets with alerts, using resource tags for precise billing.