Microsoft Azure for Beginners: The Ultimate Azure BootCamp

Explore how Azure virtual machines enable on-demand, cloud-hosted computing for development and testing, with pay-as-you-go scaling and easy integration with your network.

Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure via cloud shell, configure storage and SSH keys, install a web server, verify access, then delete resources.

Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure by selecting a resource, choosing a 2016 data center image, configuring size and inbound ports, and connecting via remote desktop connection.

Explore Azure managed disks, including premium and standard SSD options, and learn how replicas, availability sets, and availability zones ensure high durability and uptime for virtual machine workloads.

Explore Azure Files: fully managed cloud file shares via SMB, mountable by Windows, Linux, and Mac, with file sync for fast access and lift-and-shift readiness.

Explore a hands-on demo of Azure file storage, creating a storage account and file share, configuring a 2 GB quota, and mapping a Z drive via Windows PowerShell.

Explore Azure blob storage, Microsoft's object storage for unstructured data, optimized for serving images and documents, streaming media, logs, backups, and archiving with REST API access and language libraries.

Create a blob storage container, upload a file, test access via a url, switch from private to public access, then delete the container and resource group.

Explore bandwidth and data transfer costs in Azure, including outbound and inbound transfers, and the 12-month free 15 GB/month and always free 5 GB/month tiers.

Discover Azure SQL Database, a fully managed, high-performance relational database as a service for data-driven apps and websites. Explore single databases, elastic pools, automated backups, built-in security, and service tiers.

Demonstrates creating an Azure SQL Database and server, selecting a region, configuring firewall, using the AdventureWorks sample database, connecting via query editor or Management Studio, and cleaning up resources.

Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally distributed, multi-master database that enables low-latency transactional and analytical workloads with elastic throughput, automatic regional replication, and 99.999% high availability.

Create a new Cosmos DB container, configure a unique database, and add items while practicing partition key setup and basic queries.

Explore Azure App Service for hosting web, mobile, and API apps with auto scaling, high availability, and automated deployments from GitHub.

Learn to create a static html web app with Azure app service, clone a sample repo, deploy via zip, update index.html, and manage the app through the Azure portal.

Discover Azure Functions, a compute service that runs triggered code without provisioning infrastructure. Write code in your language of choice, pay only for runtime, and easily integrate with Azure services.

Watch a quick demo of creating an Azure function app in the portal, deploying a hello world function with a webhook trigger, and viewing logs before cleaning up resources.

Explore Azure Event Grid, a scalable service routing events from sources to subscriptions and endpoints via topics, including custom topics, with reliable, high-throughput delivery across regions.

Demonstrates setting up Azure Event Grid: create a custom topic in the portal, subscribe a web app endpoint, deploy a sample app, and send test events.

Learn how Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying and managing containerized apps with managed masters, on-demand scaling, integrated security and monitoring, and Active Directory RBAC integration, plus DevOps tooling.

Demonstrates creating an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, configuring a resource group, deploying an application with a manifest, and exposing it via IP address while monitoring and cleaning up resources.

Explore the Microsoft Face API, a cloud-based service that provides access to advanced face algorithms for detection, recognition, analysis, and attribute extraction and verification of faces.

Explore Azure Lab Services to quickly set up development and classroom environments with Windows or Linux VMs, then control costs, security, and access via policies and CI/CD integration.

Learn to set up an Azure classroom lab, create and publish it, invite a lab creator, start virtual machines, connect to them, and clean up resources.

Learn how to create a dev test lab in Azure, add a Windows 10 virtual machine, manage access, and deploy and clean up resources within a free trial.

Explore the translator text API, a cloud-based machine translation service with neural and statistical translation via a REST API, plus custom translator for tailored terminology.

Discover how Azure Active Directory B2C provides scalable, white-label customer identity as a service with single sign-on, customizable sign-up, progressive profiling, and third-party verification.

Explore azure service fabric, a distributed systems platform that packages, deploys, and manages scalable microservices and containers in clusters across cloud and on-prem environments.

Explore the overview of Azure DevOps, a suite of developer services for planning, code collaboration, and automated build and deployment, featuring repos, pipelines, boards, test plans, and artifacts.

Explore Azure Security Center, a unified security management tool that strengthens your security posture, detects threats, and provides recommendations for hybrid workloads, with easy deployment and auto provisioning.

Demo azure security center, enable the standard tier on a 30-day trial, configure automatic data collection with the monitoring agent, and note pricing and offline access options.

Azure Advisor acts as a personalized cloud consultant, analyzing resource configurations and telemetry to deliver recommendations across high availability, security, performance, and costs to optimize deployments and reduce spend.

Learn how to use Azure Advisor to view and filter recommendations across high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence, manage actions and alerts, and export or postpone guidance.

Explore how Azure load balancer enables high availability and low latency for inbound and outbound traffic, with public and internal deployments, health probes, and hash-based distribution.

Explore Azure Data Factory as a cloud ETL and data integration platform with a unified UI and managed integration runtime, connecting on-premises and cloud sources for analytics and CI/CD-enabled pipelines.

Explore a hands-on demo of Azure Data Factory, creating a storage account and blob container, linking services, and building a copy pipeline from input to output with monitoring and publishing.

Discover Azure cognitive search, a cloud search service that indexes private content, enriches it with cognitive skills, and delivers structured queries with facets.

Explore a practical demo of Azure cognitive search, from creating a search service and importing hotel sample data to configuring indexes, testing queries, and noting pricing and free tier options.

Understand how Microsoft Azure Notification Hubs enable cross-platform push, broadcasting to millions with a single API call, and targeting by device, user, or tag across Android, iOS, Kindle, and Baidu.

Explore Azure Batch to run large-scale parallel and tightly coupled workloads in the cloud using pool-based compute nodes and batch APIs, without managing infrastructure, with scalable task execution.

Create and configure an Azure Batch account, resource group, and a Windows compute pool, then add and run tasks to display batch environments and inspect outputs.

Explore Azure Automation, a cloud-based service that provides process automation, configuration management, and update management across hybrid environments, enabling runbooks, inventory, and change tracking.

Explore azure automation, a cloud-based service delivering consistent hybrid management across Windows and Linux, automating processes, configurations, and updates with runbooks, desired state configuration, and gallery modules.

Explore how Azure data catalog, a fully managed cloud service, centralizes discovery, understanding, and annotation of data sources with user-contributed metadata to empower data consumers and producers.

Explore Azure virtual network basics: define private address space, segment subnets, apply network security groups, enable virtual network peering across subscriptions.

Demo Azure virtual network setup: create a resource group and subnet, provision two Windows virtual machines, configure networking and icmp, and verify inter-VM connectivity.

SQL Server 2017 developer edition on Azure virtual machines; pay-as-you-go pricing, Linux or Windows hosts, image gallery, bring-your-own-license, automated updates and backups, availability groups, and performance tuning.

Demonstrates deploying SQL Server 2017 developer edition on Azure, creating a resource group and virtual machine, enabling public connectivity, and connecting with SSMS.

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