Onboarding your Organization to Azure cloud

Demonstrate using the total cost of ownership (tco) calculator to compare on-premises workloads with Azure, entering electricity, network, IT labor, VM specs, and licensing to reveal three-year cost savings.

Learn to analyze use cases and define project scope for cloud migration to Azure, balancing CapEx and OpEx, evaluating functional and non-functional requirements, and designing a hub-and-spoke Azure deployment.

Explore the cloud adoption framework (CAF) to align business and technology strategy, plan readiness, migration, and governance using best practices, landing zones, and Microsoft guidance.

Explore an enterprise-grade azure landing zone, covering foundations, identity and access management, network topology, governance, security, and disaster recovery to enable scalable, governed cloud onboarding.

Demonstrate creating and testing an azure policy that restricts storage provisioning to local Renren storage, then disable the policy to allow deployment, illustrating policy enforcement within azure cloud adoption framework.

Use the Azure pricing calculator to perform cost analysis for a resource. Compare pay-as-you-go, reserved, and hybrid benefit pricing for a Windows compute-optimized F-series VM in East US.

Explore Azure subscription models—free, pay-as-you-go, enterprise agreement, student, Visual Studio—and how to structure production, non-production, and sandbox environments with landing zones and cost controls.

Explore azure firewall as a managed, stateful security service in a hub-and-spoke network, enforcing default deny with nat and with application and network rules, plus centralized log collection.

Shows how to secure an Azure network by creating a dedicated firewall subnet, deploying a firewall, and applying application rules to block external access while enabling trusted traffic.

Create a new user in Azure Active Directory, assign the contributor role to a subscription, validate access, and reinforce security with multifactor authentication and group-based permissions.

Demonstrates building a hub and spoke Azure network with VNet peering, including hub and spoke VNets, resource groups, and IP ranges, to route traffic through a disaster recovery setup.

Explore Azure VM types, storage disks, fileshare and blob, learn how availability zones, update domains, and SLA shape high availability for cloud migrations and compare lift-and-shift with cloud-optimized strategies.

Explore Azure storage service and sla, covering how unstructured and structured data are stored at scale, with asynchronous messaging and cross-region data durability through multiple redundancy options.

Demonstrates creating a Windows virtual machine in Azure with high availability options, configuring disks, a storage account, file share, and blob storage, and accessing it through Bastion.

Explore Azure Migrate’s six migration factors and the discovery to assessment to migration workflow, including lift-and-shift, refactor, rearchitect, and rebuild strategies, plus dependency analysis and initial replication.

Explore how to onboard on-premises servers to Azure cloud using Azure Migrate for discovery, assessment, replication, and cutover, including Hyper-V discovery, Site Recovery, and testing migrations.

Perform post-migration cleanup in Azure Migrate by removing assessment group members, deleting groups and assessments, and clearing site recovery infrastructure and replication policies.

Discover how Azure Site Recovery maintains business continuity by replicating on-premises and cloud workloads between regions, with VM replication, rto and rpo settings, and flexible data protection.

Learn to set up replication to a secondary Azure region, enable site recovery, and perform test failover and failback to validate disaster recovery across east and west regions.

Explore Azure backup and restore for on-premises and Azure VMs, including full, differential, and incremental backups, application and crash consistency, recovery points, and cost considerations.

Demonstrates configuring Azure backup and restore for two virtual machines, creating a recovery services vault, defining a daily 30-day policy, enabling backups, and performing file and VM restores.

Use Azure Monitor to collect metrics and logs, analyze with Log Analytics, and alert on resources by linking to a Log Analytics workspace, enabling Application Insights, Container Insights, and dashboards.

Enable Azure Monitor for a virtual machine, create a log analytics workspace, and configure a CPU utilization alert with email notifications; validate alerts during a stress test.

Azure Security Center delivers unified security management for on-premises and cloud workloads, enabling threat detection, log analytics agent data, and security analytics with personalized recommendations across IaaS and PaaS.

Navigate the Azure Security Center dashboard, view recommendations, enable multifactor authentication, protect internet-facing VMs with network security groups, and apply remediation to improve your security score.

Explore Azure Advisor overview and its five pillars—cost, reliability, operational excellence, security, and performance efficiency—to optimize cloud spend and improve security, reliability, and performance.

Demonstrate fixing Azure Advisor recommendations to boost security and reliability, install a guest configuration extension on three resources, and raise the score toward full compliance.

Follow best practices for networking, compute, and security to onboard your organization to Azure cloud, including ip address planning, security center, sentinel, single sign-on, conditional access, and rbac.

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