Zero to Hero in Cloud: Learn Azure + AWS + Azure DevOps(New)

Learn cloud computing fundamentals, global infrastructure, and the shift from on premises to cloud, including data centers, hardware, databases, and power backups.

Learn cloud computing as on-demand access to shared pools of computing resources, servers, storage, applications, and services, over the internet, with pay-as-you-go usage and easy scale up or down.

Explore how Azure or AWS cloud lets you spin up machines, storage, and databases, with everything managed by the provider and pay-as-you-go.

Save costs by avoiding on-prem hardware and paying only for what you use, while enabling reliable, scalable cloud access from anywhere with multi-region reach and easy tool integration.

Explain infrastructure as a service and platform as a service, showing IaaS provides configurable machines like azure vm and EC2, while PaaS offers preconfigured resources like app service and Lambda.

Learn what software as a service is, with cloud providers delivering ready-to-use software and handling infrastructure, configuration, and deployment—so you simply consume the service.

Compare IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS using Azure examples, illustrating machine provisioning, configuration, deployment, and serverless options, plus choosing between customizable and managed software.

Compare capital expenditure and operational expenditure, highlighting how cloud models reduce CapEx to zero while keeping OpEx as a recurring cost managed by providers.

Explore capex versus opex in cloud strategies, emphasizing pay-as-you-go opex with managed workloads and the higher capex burden of owning hardware, power, and staff for on-premises data centers.

Learn the differences between OpEx and CapEx in cloud spending, and grasp recurring costs from renting cloud space with pay as you go, plus public, private, and hybrid cloud models.

Learn the differences between public, private, and hybrid cloud: public cloud is a shared environment with isolated machines; private cloud is owned by you; hybrid combines both.

Explore Azure regions and availability zones, where each zone is a separate building with independent power and cables. Deploy resources across zones and regions to ensure high availability during outages.

Explore how geography, regions, and availability zones organize cloud infrastructure, with data centers and machines across multiple zones to boost high availability.

Learn how to create a free Azure account and complete the sign-up steps. Verify your identity with a card and understand the subscription that enables free services and resource creation.

Learn how Azure defines a resource as any manageable item in the cloud, such as virtual machines, storage, or databases, and distinguish it from broader infrastructure.

Learn how an Azure resource group serves as a logical container that groups all resources, such as virtual machines and databases, into an environment, with no charge for the group.

Create your first resource group in Azure, a logical container, by selecting a subscription and region; an empty group costs nothing, while resources incur charges.

Create your first virtual machine in Azure by selecting a subscription, resource group, region, and operating system, then set size and availability options in the Azure portal.

Create your first Azure Ubuntu virtual machine by selecting an image, choosing a size, and configuring SSH key authentication, then review, deploy, and view the VM in a resource group.

Connect to your virtual machine via native ssh, use the downloaded key and IP, verify connectivity, then delete the resource group to avoid charges.

Learn to create resources and organize them in a resource group, then deploy a cloud virtual machine—the software emulation of a physical computer—with scalable hosting.

Navigate azure certifications from fundamentals to role-based paths, starting with AZ-900; pursue AZ-104/204 for administrator or developer, AZ-500 for security, or DP-900 for data fundamentals, with 50–60 questions and 70–75% to pass in 1–2 hours.

Guide learners to use Azure management groups to organize subscriptions, apply governance policies at scale, and manage access across multiple Azure subscriptions from a single group.

Learn how to create and manage Azure management groups to organize multiple subscriptions, move subscriptions between groups, and simplify billing and governance across departments.

Explore Azure availability sets to boost high availability and redundancy for virtual machines by distributing across fault domains and update domains within availability zones.

Create an availability set in a resource group, define fault domains and update domains, and link the set to a virtual machine for higher resilience.

Explore how availability sets with distinct fault and update domains deliver high availability, fault isolation, and reliability—while reviewing Azure regions, availability zones, and geography concepts with examples.

Explore auto scaling concepts in cloud computing, learning how to automatically adjust virtual machines with horizontal scaling (scale out/in) and vertical scaling (scale up/down) to match fluctuating loads.

Enable the Microsoft Insights resource provider in your Azure subscription to start with a virtual machine scale set (VMSS). Register unregistered providers and verify their status to proceed.

Learn how Azure virtual machine scale sets auto scale out and scale in using CPU utilization, with a min of 1, max of 20, and a 5-minute evaluation window.

Explore how an Azure load balancer distributes traffic evenly across multiple machines, preventing overload and boosting high availability and performance for web applications.

This detailed Azure demo shows creating a VNet, provisioning two Ubuntu VMs with Apache, and wiring a public load balancer with front-end and back-end pools to balance traffic.

Explore Azure App Service, a fully managed platform as a service for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends, with simplified management and pay-as-you-go pricing.

Create and deploy an Azure app service to host your code on a scalable, pay-as-you-go, managed platform with built-in security, rapid deployment, and easy integration with other Azure services.

Explore Azure Log Analytics, a cloud service that collects, analyzes, and visualizes telemetry from Azure resources, on-premises, and third-party clouds to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance.

Create a log analytics workspace, link it to a virtual machine, and analyze its logs with Kusto queries in log analytics; enable application insights and monitor via Azure Monitor extension.

Learn how Azure Resource Manager templates enable infrastructure as code with declarative JSON, defining resources via parameters, variables, and outputs to automate Azure deployments.

Learn how to create and automate Azure resources with arm templates, including building, editing, and deploying custom templates and quickstart templates to provision Linux virtual machines and storage.

Discover how to create Azure resources using Azure CLI and Cloud Shell, including storage accounts, resource groups, and locations, and compare CLI with portal and ARM templates.

Explore how Azure networking foundations enable secure, performant connectivity between machines and databases, and learn how virtual networks and subnets isolate resources and control traffic.

Discover how VNet peering connects two VNets within the same region or across regions, including intra-region and global peering, enabling cross-network communication in Azure.

See how to set up vnet peering by creating two vnets in East US and Central US with non-overlapping ip ranges, then deploy two vms to validate connectivity.

This lecture demonstrates how to establish two-way VNet peering between two virtual networks in different regions, enabling VM-to-VM connectivity and testing with ping, plus cleanup of resources.

Explore azure dns, a hosting service for dns domains that resolves names on the azure infrastructure, converting ip addresses into memorable machine names like google.com.

Explore how dns maps ip addresses to domain names by creating a private dns zone linked to a virtual network with auto registration for dns records.

Configure network security groups in Azure to control inbound and outbound traffic. Learn how http and https rules restrict access to your virtual machines and resources.

Learn how Azure Firewall protects your virtual network by blocking unwanted traffic, and how DDoS protection defends against bot traffic to keep your apps online.

Azure VPN gateway enables secure, encrypted connections between Azure virtual networks and on premises, providing site-to-site, VNet-to-VNet, and point-to-site VPN options for cross-environment access.

Explore Azure ExpressRoute, a dedicated private network that creates a private tunnel from on-premises to the cloud, delivering higher bandwidth, lower latency, and enhanced security compared to VPN.

Azure policy defines policy definitions, assigns, and manages rules to enforce region-based restrictions, keeping resources compliant with corporate standards.

This azure policy demo shows creating built-in and custom definitions, forming initiatives, and assigning policies at subscription or resource group to enforce East US.

Learn how to move resources between regions and subscriptions in Azure, including moving a virtual machine by relocating its resource group, with validation steps to ensure a successful transfer.

Move resources between resource groups, subscriptions, and regions in Azure, following validation and monitoring via activity logs, to migrate to a different resource group such as the migration resource group.

Learn how Azure Key Vault securely stores secrets, keys, and certificates, set up access policies, assign ownership, and manage secrets and keys across subscriptions and resource groups.

Microsoft Defender for cloud acts as a cloud native protection layer that guards your resources, follows DevSecOps practices, and delivers security recommendations, alerts, and remediation actions for Azure subscriptions.

Explore identity and access management in Azure by adding and removing users in Microsoft Entra ID, assigning roles, and using groups to scope access, with multi-factor authentication.

Understand how an Azure storage account provides scalable, durable, and highly available cloud storage, including blob, file, queue, table, and disk storage for various data types and VM usage.

Explore redundancy options for Azure storage, comparing LRS, ZRS, and GRS across availability zones and regions, and learn how geo zone redundant storage increases availability at higher cost.

In this demo, create an Azure storage account in a new resource group, select Azure blob storage, configure region and redundancy, create a container, and upload files.

Explore storage tiers (hot, cool, archive) and learn how access frequency and cost drive tier selection, then configure networking and rotate access keys in the Azure portal.

Learn how to clean up a storage account by deleting the resource group to save costs, and gain hands-on practice that enables you to recreate resources later for continued learning.

Explore how compute, storage, and networking, the three major cloud services, drive infrastructure from virtual machines and databases to virtual networks across data centers.

Discover how Azure SQL provides a fully managed, secure, and intelligent SQL database on the cloud, storing data in tables and enabling SQL queries.

Demonstrates how to create an Azure SQL server and database, configure authentication and storage, and run basic queries such as create, alter, insert, and select.

Azure Advisor acts as a personalized cloud consultant, offering best-practice recommendations to optimize Azure resources for cost, performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Discover how Azure Advisor provides cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance recommendations in the portal, including practical checks like health checkups, EDR, and NSG guidance.

Learn to plan, track, and optimize cloud spend with Azure cost management, gaining 360 view, budgets and alerts, and practices like reserved instances, right-sizing, and auto shutdown of non-production workloads.

Learn to analyze Azure subscription costs, set budgets, view forecasts, and use the Azure pricing calculator to compare regions, services, and resources before deployment.

Create Azure budgets and cost alerts to monitor spending and trigger actions when thresholds are reached. Configure subscription-level budgets and action groups to email alerts.

Learn how to migrate on premises SQL databases to Azure, covering migration steps, strategies, and planning and assessment of the overall cloud migration process.

Learn how to migrate on premises databases to the cloud, driven by cost reduction, scalability, and managed services, and apply the SQL migration process across cloud resources.

Move your on-premises database to the cloud for scalable, pay-as-you-use pricing, with capacity resizing, enhanced security, disaster recovery backups, and easy integration with AI, ML, and IoT.

Learn how to migrate from on-premises to the cloud by creating an Azure SQL server and database, configuring size and backups, enabling public access, and deploying.

Discover how to migrate an on-premises sql database to the cloud by installing sql on your laptop, following migration steps, and setting up ssms for cloud deployment in Azure.

Download and install SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), connect to the server, and learn to create database tables using SSMS as a beginner-friendly approach.

Enable the SA account, set a password, create an on premises database and sample table, then use Azure Migrate to assess, plan, and perform the migration to the cloud.

Learn to migrate an on-premises database to the cloud using Azure Migrate and the Data Migration Assistant, with compatibility checks and a guided project workflow.

Perform an end-to-end migration from an on-premises SQL server to Azure SQL, including an assessment of compatibility and feature parity, and migrating schema and data with validation in the cloud.

Explore a plan for business continuity and disaster recovery to keep Azure apps available during outages by failover to a second region using Chaos Studio and Azure Site Recovery.

Learn how Azure site recovery and backup ensure business continuity by replicating workloads from a primary site to a secondary region, enabling failover and quick fallback to keep apps online.

Explore how backup and disaster recovery reduce data loss and accelerate recovery with Azure Site Recovery, and use archive storage with hot and cold tiers to cut costs.

Understand RTO and RPO concepts and how a BC/DR plan and regular backups reduce outage downtime and data loss.

Explore chaos engineering and how Azure Chaos Studio enables controlled fault injection to test and improve your application's resilience against outages and disturbances.

Discover how Azure recovery services vaults store backups of VMs, workloads, and SQL data to enable rapid disaster recovery and quick data restoration.

Discover Azure backup within Recovery Services vault, learn to govern, monitor, and analyze backups at scale, and distinguish Site Recovery from data backup.

Explore backup concepts in Azure: understand backup center, backup vaults, and backup items. Learn how to create a backup vault, configure data protection, and apply local, geo, or zone redundancy.

Explore how to create backup policies for databases and Azure Virtual Machines, choosing standard or enhanced options to allow multiple backups per day, and schedule backups at specific times.

Create a recovery services vault in Azure by selecting subscription, resource group, region, and vault name, configure network access and tags, to enable disaster recovery and Azure Site Recovery.

Replicate a virtual machine using Azure Site Recovery, creating a replication from central US to West US within a recovery services vault for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Azure Site Recovery creates a storage account and recovery service vault for VM replication, with ongoing deployment, recovery points, and test failover workflow.

Learn how to set up and test Azure Site Recovery, perform replication of virtual machines, and failover between West US 2 and West US to ensure disaster recovery readiness.

Demonstrates performing a test failover with Azure Site Recovery, validating replication and deploying a new vm in the secondary region, then performing live failover and cleanup.

Watch Azure Site Recovery replicate data from the secondary West US to the primary West US two during an outage, enable protection, and finalize the active location switch.

Demonstrates a live failover in Azure Site Recovery, including reprotect, test failover, verify replication, switch active location back to primary, and cleanup of the secondary VM.