
Explore the basic elements of Azure, including organizations, subscriptions, licenses, accounts, and tenants, and learn to organize resources with management groups and policies.
Explore how Azure subscriptions function as resource containers within an organization, tying access, billing, and quotas to a tenant, and compare the common subscription types and support plans.
Estimate Azure costs with the price calculator by selecting products, scenarios, and licenses such as a ci/cd container workflow, including region, Azure hybrid benefit, and savings plans.
Create your first azure subscription, compare free and pay-as-you-go options, secure with multi-factor authentication and a password manager, and explore credits, tiers, and sponsorships in the Azure portal.
Design multi-subscription architectures by separating production and non-production environments for dev/test pricing and clearer cost reporting, while using management groups, RBAC, and policies to control access.
Explore Azure Active Directory as the core identity and access management. Learn on-premises sync via Azure AD Connect, multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and B2B and B2C.
Explore Azure Active Directory management in the portal, assign roles and permissions across management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and services, and understand built-in and custom roles.
Explore how the Microsoft cloud organizes resources with organizations, subscriptions, management groups, tenants, and Azure Active Directory, and how AD Connect, conditional access, and B2B/B2C identities fit together.
Explore how Azure achieves high availability through regions, data centers, availability zones, fault domains, and update domains, and learn to deploy across zones with availability sets and dedicated hosts.
Explore the Azure resource hierarchy with management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and learn how blueprints and Azure Policy enforce ISO 27001 standards, VM size restrictions, and access control.
Discover how azure resource groups organize resources, deployments, and tags, enable moving resources between groups, apply locks for governance, and support cost management across locations.
Explore regions and availability zones, data centers, fault and update domains, and how Azure resources like blueprints, resource groups, and access controls govern resilience and organization across regions.
Use the Azure Resource Manager to manage resources, create, update, delete, and enforce locks, tags, and access control via APIs used by the portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and SDKs.
Manage Azure resources with infrastructure as code using ARM templates and Bicep, defining parameters for resource name and location, deploying via Azure CLI, and exploring tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
Discover Microsoft tools for Azure, including the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Cloud Shell, and development data tools such as Azure Data Studio, Storage Explorer, and SQL Server Management Studio.
Log in with Azure CLI to access Azure Resource Manager APIs, then create a storage account via CLI; explore Cloud Shell in the portal or shell.azure.com with Bash or PowerShell.
Learn to work with azure storage via the portal and storage explorer, manage blob containers and files, and compare azure data studio and sql server management studio for database tasks.
Discover how Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code connect to Azure through extensions and SDKs, publish to App Service, manage blob storage, and monitor resources with Application Insights.
Power Azure workflows with Azure Resource Manager, the core that drives all tools. Explore infrastructure as code using ARM templates, and review Azure Bicep, TerraForm, Ansible, CLI, and PowerShell.
Explore what costs money in the cloud, from running virtual machines and containers to storage tiers, network ingress and egress, and software licenses, and learn to monitor and minimize costs.
Discover how Azure cost management plus billing makes costs visible, enabling budgeting, invoices, cost analysis, and Azure Advisor recommendations across subscriptions, resource types, tags, and locations with alerts.
Explore Azure cost reduction strategies, including discounts, spot VMs, reserved capacity, bring your own licenses, automatic start/stop, scaling policies, and resource cleanup to save money.
Manage and reduce Azure costs by visualizing expenses with Azure cost management, using Azure advisor tips, and applying discounts, spot VMs, reserved capacity, bring your own license, and start/stop services.
Explore Azure resource hierarchy from management groups to resource groups, learn infrastructure as code with ARM templates, and start using the Azure CLI, PowerShell, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code.
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?
The basic Microsoft Azure resource hierarchy
Azure Subscription and Support plan types
Estimate Azure costs
What Azure Active Directory B2B and B2C are
How to grant users permissions
What Availability zones, Fault- and update domains are
What Azure Resource Groups are
Management Groups and Azure Blueprint
What Azure Policy is
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Tools to work with Azure, including CLI, PowerShell, Cloud Shell
How VS Code and Visual Studio work with Azure
Data tools for Azure
The things that cost money in the cloud
Analyzing and reporting costs in Azure
Ways to reduce costs in Azure
Who is this course for?
People interested in cloud computing and Microsoft Azure
When You know what cloud computing is and What Microsoft Azure is
A great refresher for experienced people
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.