Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | Loraine Lawrence | PART 1

Cloud Models

• Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud

• Choosing the best for you

Cloud Benefits and Considerations

• Benefits of the cloud

• Cloud considerations

Cloud Services

• IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

• Sharing responsibility

Azure Architectural Components

• Regions and Availability Zones

• Subscriptions and Resource Groups

Core Azure Resources

• Compute

• Networking

• Storage

• Databases

Core Azure solutions

• IoT to Azure Sphere

• Synapse Analytics to Databricks

• AI / ML

Azure management tools

• Portal, PowerShell, CLI, and others

• Advisor, Monitor, and Service Health

Azure Security features

• Security Center and resource hygiene

• Key Vault, Sentinel, and Dedicated Hosts

Azure network security

• Defense in depth

• Network Security Groups and Firewalls

• DDoS protection

Azure identity services

• Authentication versus Authorization

• Azure AD, MFA, SSO and Conditional Access

Azure governance features

• RBAC

• Resource locks and tags

• Policy, Blueprints, and CAF

Azure privacy and compliance

• Privacy statement and Online Services Terms

• Trust Center and compliance documentation

• Azure Sovereign Regions

Methods for managing costs

• Factors affecting costs

• Options to reduce and control costs

• Azure Cost Management

Service Level Agreements and Lifecycles

• Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Factors impacting SLAs

• Azure product and feature lifecycle