Yu Guan introduces Azure 101, an episode about Microsoft Azure. The document discusses the history of cloud computing from renting physical machines to now using platforms like Azure. It provides an overview of Azure including virtual machines, web apps, data management, and mobile apps. It encourages the reader to try Azure themselves by signing up on the Azure portal.
This document provides a history and overview of Microsoft Azure. It describes how Azure began with a focus on scalable cloud services and has expanded to include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) offerings. The document also outlines Azure's computing and storage services, pricing models, and timeline of features and releases from 2008 to 2010.
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It offers several compute, network, data, and app services to develop applications using any programming language or tool. Key services include virtual machines, web apps, mobile backends, SQL databases, HDInsight Hadoop, caching, backup, and media/messaging capabilities. Azure provides global scale and high availability at a lower cost than traditional infrastructure through a pay-as-you-go model where users only pay for the resources they consume.
These slides are from Scott Guthrie's Windows Azure Overview presented on December 3rd 2013 in Dublin City University Ireland.
They give a overview of the difference features of Windows Azure and how Microsoft sees the Cloud landscape.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure training content including Azure Fundamentals, Storage, Webapps, Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Media Services, and Active Directory. It describes key cloud computing concepts like IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS and compares traditional computing to cloud computing. It also summarizes several Azure services like Webapps, Storage, Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Media Services, Azure Search, and Active Directory.
Microsoft Azure is a leader in 4 Gartner Magic Quadrants and has the largest global footprint of any cloud platform. It provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud services across computing, networking, storage, data, analytics and more. Azure allows developers to build, deploy and manage applications through tools and services like Visual Studio, SQL Database, Web Apps, and Machine Learning.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure cloud services and why businesses use the cloud. It discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) models. Key Azure services are mentioned, including Virtual Machines, SQL Database, storage, and web apps. The cloud allows businesses to rapidly setup environments, scale as needed, and increase efficiency at a lower cost compared to on-premises infrastructure.
Azure Certification course slide sharing taught by Apponix Academy where people can join who are interested.So, wanna become pro then join fast ,get certified and grab the opportunities.All the best!
This document provides a history and overview of Microsoft Azure. It describes how Azure began with a focus on scalable cloud services and has expanded to include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) offerings. The document also outlines Azure's computing and storage services, pricing models, and timeline of features and releases from 2008 to 2010.
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It offers several compute, network, data, and app services to develop applications using any programming language or tool. Key services include virtual machines, web apps, mobile backends, SQL databases, HDInsight Hadoop, caching, backup, and media/messaging capabilities. Azure provides global scale and high availability at a lower cost than traditional infrastructure through a pay-as-you-go model where users only pay for the resources they consume.
These slides are from Scott Guthrie's Windows Azure Overview presented on December 3rd 2013 in Dublin City University Ireland.
They give a overview of the difference features of Windows Azure and how Microsoft sees the Cloud landscape.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure training content including Azure Fundamentals, Storage, Webapps, Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Media Services, and Active Directory. It describes key cloud computing concepts like IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS and compares traditional computing to cloud computing. It also summarizes several Azure services like Webapps, Storage, Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Media Services, Azure Search, and Active Directory.
Microsoft Azure is a leader in 4 Gartner Magic Quadrants and has the largest global footprint of any cloud platform. It provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud services across computing, networking, storage, data, analytics and more. Azure allows developers to build, deploy and manage applications through tools and services like Visual Studio, SQL Database, Web Apps, and Machine Learning.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure cloud services and why businesses use the cloud. It discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) models. Key Azure services are mentioned, including Virtual Machines, SQL Database, storage, and web apps. The cloud allows businesses to rapidly setup environments, scale as needed, and increase efficiency at a lower cost compared to on-premises infrastructure.
Azure Certification course slide sharing taught by Apponix Academy where people can join who are interested.So, wanna become pro then join fast ,get certified and grab the opportunities.All the best!
Clouding with Microsoft Azure - Omal PereraOmal Perera
Cloud computing is the transformation of computer hardware, software, and networks into resources that are accessed over the Internet. Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications across Microsoft's global network of datacenters. Azure provides benefits like reduced costs, flexibility, mobility, ease of implementation, agility, automation, and improved end user productivity through an efficient, self-service, usage-based, and scalable infrastructure. Azure's security features include identity and access management, network security, data protection, data privacy, threat defense, and compliance with programs and certifications.
This is a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure cloud. I used these slides in an intro session for developers. I did few demos during the session that not included in the slide. Brand name and logos are properties of their respective owners.
The document provides an overview of Microsoft Cloud services including Azure Services Platform, Online Services, and Live Services. It describes key Azure components like compute, storage, SQL services, .NET services, and developer tools. It recommends that readers download the Visual Studio tools and SDK to start developing applications, deploy to the cloud after getting an account, and provide feedback to help shape Microsoft cloud offerings.
A Quick Introduction to Microsoft Azure Public CloudZNetLive
In Cloud industry Microsoft Azure has become a leader.
This slideshow presents about Microsoft's Azure Public Cloud, its features, benefits and how ZNetLive, a cloud hosting provider, serves you an expertise in offering cloud solutions.
Microsoft Azure provides cloud services for small and medium-sized businesses that offer flexibility and cost savings. Key benefits include only paying for resources used so there are no upfront costs, usage-based billing down to the minute so customers don't pay when virtual machines are stopped, and the ability to easily scale services up or down as needed. Microsoft sees continued momentum and growth in Azure subscriptions, databases, storage objects, developers, and other metrics. Azure aims to be the most trusted public cloud with enterprise-grade security, privacy protections, and compliance with standards for government use and sensitive data.
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft's global network of datacenters. It provides compute, network, storage and application services that allow users to build applications using any language, tool or framework. The platform offers advantages of speed, scale and lower costs compared to traditional application development models. Key services include virtual machines, web sites, cloud services, SQL and NoSQL data storage, media services and more.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure App Service
Azure Machine Learning
Microservices in Azure
Azure Cloud Service
Azure Functions
Real life problem solution discuss
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides a global network that offers faster development times and scalability compared to traditional hosting, while reducing costs. Azure ensures data protection and security with backups, recovery options, and 99.99% uptime. Developers can build apps using any language or tool and deploy them anywhere while extending their existing IT infrastructure into the cloud.
Azure templates can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources in a declarative and repeatable way. They define the resources to deploy, including virtual machines, databases, and networking components, as well as the relationships between resources. Azure templates allow for idempotent deployments, simplified orchestration of rollbacks and upgrades, and cross-resource configuration and updates. They are stored as JSON or ARM template files in source control and can be deployed via the Azure CLI, PowerShell, or REST APIs. A wide range of community-created quickstart templates are available on GitHub for common workload deployments.
The document discusses the skills measured in the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification exam (AZ-900). It covers understanding cloud concepts, core Azure services, security, privacy, compliance and trust on Azure, and Azure pricing and support. For each section, it lists the specific topics covered at a high level, such as cloud deployment models, Azure identity services, compliance standards, subscription and cost management options, and service level agreements.
This document introduces Microsoft Windows Azure and its cloud computing platform. It discusses key concepts like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and how Azure provides infrastructure, platform and software as a service. It outlines the benefits of cloud computing like agility, scalability and reduced costs. The document also provides an overview of the Azure platform, its components like compute, storage, SQL Azure and AppFabric. It describes how to develop, deploy and manage applications on Azure using various tools and SDKs.
Aidan Finn gave an overview of Microsoft Azure, including what it is, what capabilities it provides, and how it compares to competitors. Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows customers to run applications and store data across global data centers managed by Microsoft. It provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and data services. Azure offers consistent hybrid capabilities with on-premises environments, a global footprint, and continuous innovation through new features and services.
The document discusses network segmentation strategies on the Azure platform. It outlines several segmentation options on Azure including subscriptions, virtual networks, network security groups, application security groups, and Azure Firewall. It recommends segmenting based on principles such as splitting workstations from servers, grouping by physical location, separating production and non-production workloads, and isolating high risk or sensitive assets. The hub-spoke architecture is presented as a common topology for implementing segmentation on Azure with shared services in the hub and isolated workloads in spokes.
The Azure Services Platform provides a set of building blocks and extensible components for developing rich social applications and consumer experiences in the cloud. It includes services for user and application data storage, identity management, presence, communication, search, and more. Developers can access these services through a uniform RESTful programming model and client libraries. The platform also provides capabilities for compute, storage, messaging, access control, workflows, and databases to enable simple and scalable cloud application architectures.
What is Microsoft Azure used for?-Microsoft azure Zabeel Institute
Microsoft Azure, commonly described as Azure, is a cloud computing solution created by Microsoft for building, screening, deploying, and taking care of applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
This document provides an overview of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including its capabilities and services. It discusses Microsoft's experience in the cloud with services like Outlook.com, Xbox Live, and Bing. It also provides examples of how companies have used Azure, such as a vehicle data website using it for overflow capacity, a call center leveraging web services on Azure, and an online education tool saving on development costs. Overall, the document promotes Azure as a scalable and cost-effective cloud platform for developing and hosting a variety of application types and models.
This document summarizes a Microsoft Azure online webcast. It introduces Azure services including compute, storage, networking, analytics and more. It provides an overview of Azure capabilities like global data center footprint, enterprise customers, and partners. The webcast demonstrates the Azure portal and previews capabilities. It discusses hybrid scenarios, identity management, and scenarios to get started with Azure like development/testing, lift and shift of workloads, using storage, big data, and web apps. Contact information is provided for questions.
This document provides an overview of Azure including:
- Types of cloud computing like public and private clouds
- Deployment patterns in Azure like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- ARM architecture brings together Azure resources and resource groups
- Azure regions and availability zones for geographic distribution
- Subscription types like pay-as-you-go, free trial, and enterprise agreements
- Resource groups contain related resources for an Azure solution
Understanding The Azure Platform November 09DavidGristwood
The document discusses Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform. It describes how Azure allows developers to build and host scalable applications and services through its global data center infrastructure. Azure offers several services including compute, storage, SQL databases, and content delivery to help applications scale efficiently in the cloud. The platform uses a pay-as-you-go model with no long-term commitments and allows customers to focus on their code instead of managing infrastructure.
This document discusses the depiction of Guan Yu, a heroic general from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms periods who became a deity, in Song Dynasty popular culture and religion. It notes that beginning in the Sui-Tang dynasties, Guan Yu was worshipped as a deity and gained further popularity in the Southern Song. Key consistent imagery of Guan Yu included his red face, long beard, and signature weapon. Popular literature from the Song period helped shape the imagery and symbols of Guan Yu that appeared in temples, further cementing his role in Chinese religion.
Clouding with Microsoft Azure - Omal PereraOmal Perera
Cloud computing is the transformation of computer hardware, software, and networks into resources that are accessed over the Internet. Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications across Microsoft's global network of datacenters. Azure provides benefits like reduced costs, flexibility, mobility, ease of implementation, agility, automation, and improved end user productivity through an efficient, self-service, usage-based, and scalable infrastructure. Azure's security features include identity and access management, network security, data protection, data privacy, threat defense, and compliance with programs and certifications.
This is a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure cloud. I used these slides in an intro session for developers. I did few demos during the session that not included in the slide. Brand name and logos are properties of their respective owners.
The document provides an overview of Microsoft Cloud services including Azure Services Platform, Online Services, and Live Services. It describes key Azure components like compute, storage, SQL services, .NET services, and developer tools. It recommends that readers download the Visual Studio tools and SDK to start developing applications, deploy to the cloud after getting an account, and provide feedback to help shape Microsoft cloud offerings.
A Quick Introduction to Microsoft Azure Public CloudZNetLive
In Cloud industry Microsoft Azure has become a leader.
This slideshow presents about Microsoft's Azure Public Cloud, its features, benefits and how ZNetLive, a cloud hosting provider, serves you an expertise in offering cloud solutions.
Microsoft Azure provides cloud services for small and medium-sized businesses that offer flexibility and cost savings. Key benefits include only paying for resources used so there are no upfront costs, usage-based billing down to the minute so customers don't pay when virtual machines are stopped, and the ability to easily scale services up or down as needed. Microsoft sees continued momentum and growth in Azure subscriptions, databases, storage objects, developers, and other metrics. Azure aims to be the most trusted public cloud with enterprise-grade security, privacy protections, and compliance with standards for government use and sensitive data.
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft's global network of datacenters. It provides compute, network, storage and application services that allow users to build applications using any language, tool or framework. The platform offers advantages of speed, scale and lower costs compared to traditional application development models. Key services include virtual machines, web sites, cloud services, SQL and NoSQL data storage, media services and more.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure App Service
Azure Machine Learning
Microservices in Azure
Azure Cloud Service
Azure Functions
Real life problem solution discuss
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides a global network that offers faster development times and scalability compared to traditional hosting, while reducing costs. Azure ensures data protection and security with backups, recovery options, and 99.99% uptime. Developers can build apps using any language or tool and deploy them anywhere while extending their existing IT infrastructure into the cloud.
Azure templates can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources in a declarative and repeatable way. They define the resources to deploy, including virtual machines, databases, and networking components, as well as the relationships between resources. Azure templates allow for idempotent deployments, simplified orchestration of rollbacks and upgrades, and cross-resource configuration and updates. They are stored as JSON or ARM template files in source control and can be deployed via the Azure CLI, PowerShell, or REST APIs. A wide range of community-created quickstart templates are available on GitHub for common workload deployments.
The document discusses the skills measured in the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification exam (AZ-900). It covers understanding cloud concepts, core Azure services, security, privacy, compliance and trust on Azure, and Azure pricing and support. For each section, it lists the specific topics covered at a high level, such as cloud deployment models, Azure identity services, compliance standards, subscription and cost management options, and service level agreements.
This document introduces Microsoft Windows Azure and its cloud computing platform. It discusses key concepts like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and how Azure provides infrastructure, platform and software as a service. It outlines the benefits of cloud computing like agility, scalability and reduced costs. The document also provides an overview of the Azure platform, its components like compute, storage, SQL Azure and AppFabric. It describes how to develop, deploy and manage applications on Azure using various tools and SDKs.
Aidan Finn gave an overview of Microsoft Azure, including what it is, what capabilities it provides, and how it compares to competitors. Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows customers to run applications and store data across global data centers managed by Microsoft. It provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and data services. Azure offers consistent hybrid capabilities with on-premises environments, a global footprint, and continuous innovation through new features and services.
The document discusses network segmentation strategies on the Azure platform. It outlines several segmentation options on Azure including subscriptions, virtual networks, network security groups, application security groups, and Azure Firewall. It recommends segmenting based on principles such as splitting workstations from servers, grouping by physical location, separating production and non-production workloads, and isolating high risk or sensitive assets. The hub-spoke architecture is presented as a common topology for implementing segmentation on Azure with shared services in the hub and isolated workloads in spokes.
The Azure Services Platform provides a set of building blocks and extensible components for developing rich social applications and consumer experiences in the cloud. It includes services for user and application data storage, identity management, presence, communication, search, and more. Developers can access these services through a uniform RESTful programming model and client libraries. The platform also provides capabilities for compute, storage, messaging, access control, workflows, and databases to enable simple and scalable cloud application architectures.
What is Microsoft Azure used for?-Microsoft azure Zabeel Institute
Microsoft Azure, commonly described as Azure, is a cloud computing solution created by Microsoft for building, screening, deploying, and taking care of applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
This document provides an overview of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including its capabilities and services. It discusses Microsoft's experience in the cloud with services like Outlook.com, Xbox Live, and Bing. It also provides examples of how companies have used Azure, such as a vehicle data website using it for overflow capacity, a call center leveraging web services on Azure, and an online education tool saving on development costs. Overall, the document promotes Azure as a scalable and cost-effective cloud platform for developing and hosting a variety of application types and models.
This document summarizes a Microsoft Azure online webcast. It introduces Azure services including compute, storage, networking, analytics and more. It provides an overview of Azure capabilities like global data center footprint, enterprise customers, and partners. The webcast demonstrates the Azure portal and previews capabilities. It discusses hybrid scenarios, identity management, and scenarios to get started with Azure like development/testing, lift and shift of workloads, using storage, big data, and web apps. Contact information is provided for questions.
This document provides an overview of Azure including:
- Types of cloud computing like public and private clouds
- Deployment patterns in Azure like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- ARM architecture brings together Azure resources and resource groups
- Azure regions and availability zones for geographic distribution
- Subscription types like pay-as-you-go, free trial, and enterprise agreements
- Resource groups contain related resources for an Azure solution
Understanding The Azure Platform November 09DavidGristwood
The document discusses Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform. It describes how Azure allows developers to build and host scalable applications and services through its global data center infrastructure. Azure offers several services including compute, storage, SQL databases, and content delivery to help applications scale efficiently in the cloud. The platform uses a pay-as-you-go model with no long-term commitments and allows customers to focus on their code instead of managing infrastructure.
This document discusses the depiction of Guan Yu, a heroic general from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms periods who became a deity, in Song Dynasty popular culture and religion. It notes that beginning in the Sui-Tang dynasties, Guan Yu was worshipped as a deity and gained further popularity in the Southern Song. Key consistent imagery of Guan Yu included his red face, long beard, and signature weapon. Popular literature from the Song period helped shape the imagery and symbols of Guan Yu that appeared in temples, further cementing his role in Chinese religion.
This document examines the rise of the Guan Yu cult in Song dynasty China through an analysis of popular culture and imagery. It discusses how storytelling and Buddhist, Daoist, and bureaucratic narratives promoted Guan Yu for different reasons. Guan Yu was granted imperial titles in the Song, cementing his status. Four symbolic representations are analyzed: his long beard from early sources, his later associated red face from violent popular stories, his signature weapon, and his link to classical texts. The cult's popularity grew through these narrative and symbolic depictions promoted in different contexts.
The document provides an agenda outline on cloud computing that includes an introduction to the innovation trend, history of cloud, definitions of cloud computing, cloud deployment models, market share of cloud providers, pros and cons of cloud including risks, cloud service models, examples of cloud usage, and summaries. It discusses key topics like the concept of cloud computing being coined in 1960, the rise of major cloud providers today, and how both businesses and individuals have adopted cloud services ranging from email to enterprise applications to storage. The document aims to give an overview of the cloud computing landscape.
The document provides an introduction to cloud computing, including definitions and concepts. It discusses the evolution of cloud computing from earlier technologies like grid computing and utility computing. It also outlines some key characteristics of cloud computing models including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Additionally, it covers basic cloud architecture, characteristics, purposes and benefits, as well as opportunities and challenges of cloud computing.
AWS 101 Webinar: Journey to the AWS Cloud - Introduction to Cloud Computing w...Amazon Web Services
Whether you are running applications that share photos or support critical operations of your business, you need rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. The term "cloud computing" refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are a start-up who wants to accelerate growth without a big upfront investment in cash or time for technology or an Enterprise looking for IT innovation, agility and resiliency while reducing costs, the AWS Cloud provides a complete set of web services at zero upfront costs which are available with a few clicks and within minutes. In this session learn more about the benefits of Cloud Computing with AWS.
Intro to cloud computing — MegaCOMM 2013, JerusalemReuven Lerner
What is cloud computing? This is an introduction that I gave at MegaCOMM 2013, a conference for technical writers in Jerusalem. The talk describes how the combination of Internet access, virtualization, and open source have made computing a utility that we can turn on and off at will -- similar in some ways to electricity, water, and other utilities with which we're familiar.
This document provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) including its history, services, pricing model, global infrastructure, and how customers can get started with AWS. It describes how AWS began as Amazon's internal infrastructure and has grown to serve over 1 million customers globally across industries like startups, enterprises, and government agencies. The document outlines AWS's broad range of cloud computing services across categories like compute, storage, databases, analytics, mobile, and more. It emphasizes AWS's focus on innovation with new services and features, lower prices through economies of scale, and its utility-based on-demand pricing model. Finally, it suggests steps for getting started like using the free tier, training, and certification programs.
This introductory seminar explains Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in great detail.
The presenter, Simone Brunozzi (@simon), is an AWS Technology Evangelist.
Recommended for business/technical audiences.
Curious about the cloud? We've got answers. Join HOSTING for an overview of cloud hosting and computing basics. From the history of the cloud to the projected future, we'll investigate the foundation of this $2.1 billion industry.
Cloud computing involves delivering computing services over the Internet. Instead of running programs locally, users access software and storage that resides on remote servers in the "cloud." The concept originated in the 1950s but Amazon launched the first major public cloud in 2006. Cloud computing has three main components - clients that access the cloud, distributed servers that host applications and data, and data centers that house these servers. There are different types of clients, deployment models for clouds, service models, and cloud computing enables scalability, reliability, and efficiency for applications accessed over the Internet like email, social media, and search engines.
This document presents an introduction to cloud computing. It defines cloud computing as using remote servers and the internet to maintain data and applications. It describes the characteristics of cloud computing including APIs, virtualization, reliability, and security. It discusses the different types of cloud including public, private, community, and hybrid cloud. It also defines the three main cloud stacks: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The benefits of cloud computing are reduced costs, improved accessibility and flexibility. Cloud security and uses of cloud computing are also briefly discussed.
This document introduces Microsoft Azure by discussing how to pronounce the name, providing a brief history of cloud computing, and giving an overview of Azure's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. It uses examples like "pizza as a service" and "house as a service" to illustrate cloud concepts and provides links for documentation and a free trial to get started with Azure.
Il cloud è il presente e il futuro di moltissime soluzioni e infrastrutture aziendali. In questa sessione capiremo cos’è il cloud, che tipi di cloud ci sono e vedremo gli aspetti principali di Azure, dalle VM (IaaS) ai vari servizi di piattaforma (PaaS), facendo anche una piccola deviazione sulle API del Microsoft Graph e dei Cognitive Services (SaaS)
DevCamp - What can the cloud do for meChris Dufour
You've heard about the cloud, but what can you actually do with it? First there was web, then there was mobile, and now this is your chance to learn about the next big technology shift in the computer industry: cloud! Come join us in this demo heavy session where we will cover the following topics:
•How to deploy a website to Azure
•How to create a virtual machine on Azure
•How to create an Azure Mobile Service
•The services Azure offers to tech students
This event is made up of a presentation and demos that will last 60-90 minutes, and a selection of hands on labs that will take 10-30 minutes.
Azure Tutorial For Beginners | Microsoft Azure Tutorial For Beginners | Azure...Simplilearn
This presentation about Azure for beginners will help you understand what is cloud computing, what is Microsoft Azure, what are the services Azure offers, why is Azure better, which companies use Azure and you will also see a use case where we utilize some of the Azure cloud services. Cloud computing refers to the method of using the internet to store data, manage data and process data and Microsoft Azure is on such cloud service provider. It works on the basis of cloud computing. Microsoft Azure is a set of cloud services to build, manage and deploy applications on a network with the help of tools and frameworks. With the vast majority of organizations the world over adopting the cloud, demand for skilled professionals in this field is high. High salaries and a vast range of options for cloud computing experts have made it a sought-after industry for IT professionals. Now, let us get started and understand what is Microsoft Azure and the services that it has got to offer us.
Below topics are explained in this Azure presentation for beginners:
1. What is cloud computing?
2. What is Microsoft Azure?
3. What are the services Azure offers?
4. Why is Azure better?
5. Which companies use Azure?
6. Microsoft Azure Demo
About Simplilearn Machine Learning course:
Simplilearn's Developing Microsoft® Azure Solutions (70-532) certification training program is designed to give you mastery in Microsoft Azure enterprise-grade cloud platform. Through demos & practical applications, you’ll learn to design, develop, implement, automate, and monitor resilient and scalable cloud solutions on the Azure platform. The course will enable you to explore Microsoft Azure development environment and Azure platform features and learn development tools, techniques and approaches used to build and deploy cloud apps.
What skills will you learn from this Azure certification training course?
By the end of this Azure certification course, you will be able to:
1. Design and implement Web Apps
2. Create and manage virtual machines
3. Design and implement cloud services
4. Design and implement a storage strategy
5. Manage application and network services
Who should take up this Microsoft Azure certification training course?
This course is an essential requirement for those developers who need a strong understanding of concepts and practices related to cloud app development & deployment. Applicable careers include:
1 .NET Developers
2. Solution Architects/ Team Leads
3. DevOps Engineers / Application Engineers / QA Engineers
Learn more at https://www.simplilearn.com/cloud-computing/microsoft-azure-fundamentals-training
WittyMinds is a technology company that offers a wide range of products and services including IoT devices, mobile and web applications, AR/VR, drones, machine learning, data science, blockchain development, and website design and development. They have expertise in platforms such as AWS, Azure, Android and iOS. Their goal is to provide leading technology to help businesses grow through customized and up-to-date tools.
The document discusses the experience and qualifications of M Viknaraj related to cloud infrastructure and Microsoft technologies. It includes over 17 years of experience in IT and networking, specializing in Microsoft server infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, Office 365, and virtualization. It also provides information on cloud computing concepts like infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service, virtual machines, and data centers.
This document provides an overview of 30 essential skills to master Azure. It discusses key concepts like Azure Active Directory, subscriptions and tenants, identity management and security. It also covers specific Azure services like Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, Virtual Machines, and containers. Other sections discuss API Management, monitoring with Log Analytics and App Insights, DevOps, cost management, and governance tools like Azure Policy and Blueprints. The document emphasizes understanding Azure Active Directory, focusing on 5-10 key services, embracing new features through previews, and adapting strategies based on customer needs between cloud and on-premises.
Microsoft Azure - GAA and Irish Tech Society HackathonJuarez Junior
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure and its capabilities. It describes Azure as a cloud platform that offers global scale, supports Linux and open source technologies, and is optimized for Microsoft workloads. It outlines Azure's infrastructure and services including compute options like virtual machines and containers, databases, developer tools, and capabilities for edge and IoT scenarios. Key sections highlight Azure's developer ecosystem, tools for application development, and digital twin and Azure Sphere solutions.
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai is a cloud solution architect with over 10 years of experience as a full stack developer specializing in Angular and Azure. He has made over 10,000 contributions to Stack Overflow and maintains 140 code repositories on StackBlitz. Sinnathurai regularly shares his expertise in developer communities and has received numerous Microsoft certifications and awards for his open source contributions.
1) Azure Web Sites allows you to quickly configure high availability Joomla environments in the cloud. It provides automatic scaling and traffic management across global data centers.
2) Traffic Manager allows intelligent routing of users to the optimal data center region. It also enables failover between regions.
3) Site Slots allow developing and testing new site versions in a staging slot before swapping them with the live production site. This provides a safer way to deploy updates.
The document discusses Microsoft Azure cloud computing services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It covers Azure virtual machines, data services, web apps, mobile apps, big data/machine learning capabilities, and tools for developers including the Azure portal and Visual Studio.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure training content, including Azure Fundamentals, Storage, Webapps, Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Media Services, and Azure Search. It describes cloud computing models including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Key Azure services are explained at a high level, such as Webapps for app hosting, Storage for data, Virtual Machines for infrastructure control, and Active Directory for identity management.
A tendência do desenvolvimento de software gerenciado e operado na nuvemMicrosoft
This document discusses the trend of developing and operating software in the cloud. It provides an overview of the benefits of cloud computing such as flexibility in scaling resources up and down as needed, lower capital costs, and no downtime from capacity issues. The document also shares statistics about Microsoft Azure's global footprint and adoption among enterprises.
A tendência do desenvolvimento de software gerenciado e operado na nuvemRicardo Serradas
This document discusses the trend of developing and operating software in the cloud. It provides an overview of the benefits of cloud computing such as flexibility in scaling resources up and down as needed, lower capital costs, and no downtime from capacity issues. The document also shares statistics about Microsoft Azure's global footprint and adoption among enterprises.
Session presented at Microsoft Developer TechRefresh 2015 in Lisbon - Portugal. A remake of the Build 2015 session, with updated contents and new demos.
Building an IoT Massive Multiplayer Game in 60 Minutes - TechBash 2017Eran Stiller
The slide deck for my session at TechBash 2017 on "Building an IoT Massive Multiplayer Game in 60 Minutes".
Sample code can be found at https://github.com/estiller/iot-game
Building Interactive Virtual Reality Experiences in the CloudAmazon Web Services
Bashar Al-fallouji, Solutions Architect, AWS
Amazon Sumerian lets you create and run virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D applications. Build apps quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. In this session we will introduce you to Amazon Sumerian, and describe how you can build highly immersive and interactive scenes for the enterprise that run on popular hardware such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and iOS mobile devices.
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Content:
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potential misuse of genetic information.
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patient rights.
• Visuals: Include images or icons representing ethical considerations.
Content:
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potential misuse of genetic information.
• Regulations and guidelines: Present examples of ethical guidelines and regulations in place to safeguard
patient rights.
• Visuals: Include images or icons representing ethical considerations.
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potential misuse of genetic information.
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patient rights.
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4. CLOUD HISTORY
Decades ago, rent a domain and space (physical machine) to host website
Years ago, rent a virtual machine and manage by yourself
Now and future, IaaS PaaS SaaS
Cloud, especial Microsoft Azure, is more than virtual machine, IIS and website host,
more than meet the eyes
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. The goal of this topic is to give you a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of Azure, even if you don't know anything about cloud computing.
Azure is growing all the time so it's easy to get overloaded. Start with the basic services, then go through the additional services. That doesn't mean you can't use just the additional services by themselves, but the basic services make up the core of an application running in Azure.
The ability to create a virtual machine on demand, whether from a standard image or from one you supply, can be very useful. This approach, commonly known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), is what Azure Virtual Machines provides. Figure 2 shows a combination of how an Virtual Machine (VM) runs and how to create one from a VHD.
To create a VM, you specify which VHD to use and the VM's size. You then pay for the time that the VM is running. You pay by the minute and only while it's running, though there is a minimal storage charge for keeping the VHD available. Azure offers a gallery of stock VHDs (called "images") that contain a bootable operating system to start from. These include Microsoft and partner options, such as Windows Server and Linux, SQL Server, Oracle and many more. You're free to create VHDs and images, and then upload them yourself. You can even upload VHDs that contain only data and then access them from your running VMs.
Wherever the VHD comes from, you can persistently store any changes made while a VM is running. The next time you create a VM from that VHD, things pick up where you left off. The VHDs that back the Virtual Machines are stored in Azure Storage blobs, which we talk about later. That means you get redundancy to ensure your VMs won’t disappear due to hardware and disk failures. It's also possible to copy the changed VHD out of Azure, then run it locally.
Your application runs within one or more Virtual Machines, depending on how you created it before or decide to create it from scratch now.
This quite general approach to cloud computing can be used to address many different problems.
Virtual Machine Scenarios
Dev/Test - You might use them to create an inexpensive development and test platform that you can shut down when you've finished using it. You might also create and run applications that use whatever languages and libraries you like. Those applications can use any of the data management options that Azure provides, and you can also choose to use SQL Server or another DBMS running in one or more virtual machines.
Move Applications to Azure (Lift-and-shift) - "Lift-and-shift" refers to moving you application much like you'd use a forklift to move a large object. You "lift" the VHD from your local datacenter, and "shift" it to Azure and run it there. You will typically have to do some work to remove dependencies on other systems. If there are too many, you may choose option 3 instead.
Extend your Datacenter - Use Azure VMs as an extension of your on-premises datacenter, running SharePoint or other applications. To support this, it's possible to create Windows domains in the cloud by running Active Directory in Azure VMs. You can use Azure Virtual Network (mentioned later) to tie your local network and your network in Azure together.
One of the most common things that people do in the cloud is run websites and web applications. Azure Virtual Machines allows this, but it still leaves you with the responsibility of administering one or more VMs and the underlying operating systems. Cloud services web roles can do this, but deploying and maintaining them still takes administrative work. What if you just want a website where somebody else takes care of the administrative work for you?
This is exactly what Web Apps provides. This compute model offers a managed web environment using the Azure Management portal as well as APIs. You can move an existing website application into Web Apps unchanged, or you can create a new one directly in the cloud. Once a website is running, you can add or remove instances dynamically, relying on Azure Web Apps to load balance requests across them. Azure Apps offers both a shared option, where your website runs in a virtual machine with other sites, and a standard option that allows a site to run in its own VM. The standard option also lets you increase the size (computing power) of your instances if needed.
For development, Web Apps supports .NET, PHP, Node.js, Java and Python along with SQL Database and MySQL (from ClearDB, a Microsoft partner) for relational storage. It also provides built-in support for several popular applications, including WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. The goal is to provide a low-cost, scalable, and broadly useful platform for creating websites and web applications in the public cloud.
Web Apps Scenarios
Web Apps is intended to be useful for corporations, developers, and web design agencies. For corporations, it's an easy-to-manage, scalable, highly secure, and highly available solution for running presence websites. When you need to set up a Website, it’s best to start with Azure Web Apps and proceed to Cloud Services once you need a feature that’s not available. See the end of the "Compute" section for more links that can help you to choose between the options.
Suppose you want to build a cloud application that can support lots of simultaneous users, doesn't require much administration, and never goes down. You might be an established software vendor, for example, that's decided to embrace Software as a Service (SaaS) by building a version of one of your applications in the cloud. Or you might be a start-up creating a consumer application that you expect will grow fast. If you're building on Azure, which execution model should you use?
Azure Web Apps allows creating this kind of web application, but there are some constraints. You don't have administrative access, for example, which means that you can't install arbitrary software. Azure Virtual Machines gives you lots of flexibility, including administrative access, and you certainly can use it to build a very scalable application, but you'll have to handle many aspects of reliability and administration yourself. What you'd like is an option that gives you the control you need but also handles most of the work required for reliability and administration.
This is exactly what's provided by Azure Cloud Services. This technology is designed expressly to support scalable, reliable, and low-admin applications, and it's an example of what's commonly called Platform as a Service (PaaS). To use it, you create an application using the technology you choose, such as C#, Java, PHP, Python, Node.js, or something else. Your code then executes in virtual machines (referred to as instances) running a version of Windows Server.
But these VMs are distinct from the ones you create with Azure Virtual Machines. For one thing, Azure itself manages them, doing things like installing operating system patches and automatically rolling out new patched images. This implies that your application shouldn't maintain state in web or worker role instances; it should instead be kept in one of the Azure data management options described in the next section. Azure also monitors these VMs, restarting any that fail. You can set cloud services to automatically create more or fewer instances in response to demand. This allows you to handle increased usage, and then scale back so you aren’t paying as much when there is less usage.
You have two roles to choose from when you create an instance, both based on Windows Server. The main difference between the two is that an instance of a web role runs IIS, while an instance of a worker role does not. Both are managed in the same way, however, and it's common for an application to use both. For example, a web role instance might accept requests from users, then pass them to a worker role instance for processing. To scale your application up or down, you can request that Azure create more instances of either role or shut down existing instances. And similar to Azure Virtual Machines, you're charged only for the time that each web or worker role instance is running.
Cloud Services Scenarios
Cloud Services are ideal to support massive scale out when you need more control over the platform than provided by Azure Web Apps but don’t need control over the underlying operating system.
Applications need data, and different kinds of applications need different kinds of data. Because of this, Azure provides several different ways to store and manage data. Azure provides many storage options, but all are designed for very durable storage. With any of these options, there are always 3 copies of your data kept in sync across an Azure datacenter -- 6 if you allow Azure to use geo-redundancy to back up to another datacenter at least 300 miles away.
For relational storage, Azure provides the feature SQL Database. Don't let the naming fool you. This is different than a typical SQL Database provided by SQL Server running on top of Windows Server.
Formerly called SQL Azure, Azure SQL Database provides all of the key features of a relational database management system, including atomic transactions, concurrent data access by multiple users with data integrity, ANSI SQL queries, and a familiar programming model. Like SQL Server, SQL Database can be accessed using Entity Framework, ADO.NET, JDBC, and other familiar data access technologies. It also supports most of the T-SQL language, along with SQL Server tools such as SQL Server Management Studio. For anybody familiar with SQL Server (or another relational database), using SQL Database is straightforward.
But SQL Database isn't just a DBMS in the cloud-it's a PaaS service. You still control your data and who can access it, but SQL Database takes care of the administrative grunt work, such as managing the hardware infrastructure and automatically keeping the database and operating system software up to date. SQL Database also provides high availability, automatic backups, point-in-time restore capabilities, and can replicate copies across geographical regions.
Scenarios for SQL Database
If you're creating an Azure application (using any of the compute models) that needs relational storage, SQL Database can be a good option. Applications running outside the cloud can also use this service, though, so there are plenty of other scenarios. For instance, data stored in SQL Database can be accessed from different client systems, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones. And because it provides built-in high availability through replication, using SQL Database can help minimize downtime.
This feature is sometimes called different terms as it's part of a larger feature called "Azure Storage". If you see "tables", "Azure tables" or "storage tables", it's all the same thing.
And don't be confused by the name: this technology doesn't provide relational storage. In fact, it's an example of a NoSQL approach called a key/value store. Azure Tables let an application store properties of various types, such as strings, integers, and dates. An application can then retrieve a group of properties by providing a unique key for that group. While complex operations like joins aren't supported, tables offer fast access to typed data. They're also very scalable, with a single table able to hold as much as a terabyte of data. And matching their simplicity, tables are usually less expensive to use than SQL Database's relational storage.
Scenarios for Tables
Suppose you want to create an Azure application that needs fast access to typed data, maybe lots of it, but doesn't need to perform complex SQL queries on this data. For example, imagine you're creating a consumer application that needs to store customer profile information for each user. Your app is going to be very popular, so you need to allow for lots of data, but you won't do much with this data beyond storing it, then retrieving it in simple ways. This is exactly the kind of scenario where Azure Tables makes sense.
Azure Blobs (again "Blob Storage" and just "Storage Blobs" are the same thing) is designed to store unstructured binary data. Like Tables, Blobs provides inexpensive storage, and a single blob can be as large as 1TB (one terabyte). Azure applications can also use Azure drives, which let blobs provide persistent storage for a Windows file system mounted in an Azure instance. The application sees ordinary Windows files, but the contents are actually stored in a blob.
Blob storage is used by many other Azure features (including Virtual Machines), so it can certainly handle your workloads too.
Scenarios for Blobs
An application that stores video, massive files, or other binary information can use blobs for simple, cheap storage. Blobs are also commonly used in conjunction with other services like Content Delivery Network, which we will talk about later.
When you have published your app - whether it runs on mobile devices, desktops, or web browsers - Application Insights tells you how it is performing and what users are doing with it. It will keep a count of crashes and slow response, alert you if the figures cross unacceptable thresholds, and help you diagnose any problems.
When you develop a new feature, plan to measure its success with users. By analysing usage patterns, you understand what works best for your customers and enhance your app in every development cycle.
Although it's hosted in Azure, Application Insights works for a wide and growing range of apps, both on an off Azure. Both J2EE and ASP.NET web apps are covered, as well as iOS, Android, OSX and Windows applications. Telemetry is sent from an SDK built with the app, to be analyzed and displayed in the Application Insights service in Azure.
If you want more specialized analytics, export the telemetry stream to a database, or to Power BI, or any other tools.
Application Insights scenarios
You are developing an app. It might be a web app or a device app, or a device app with a web back end.
Tune the performance of your app after it is published, or while it is in load testing. Application Insights aggregates telemetry from all the installed instances, and presents you with charts of response times, request and exception counts, dependency response times, and other performance indicators. These help you tune your app's performance. You can insert code to report more specific data if you need it.
Detect and diagnose problems in your live app. You can get alerts by email if performance indicators cross acceptable thresholds. You can investigate specific user sessions, for example to see the request that caused an exception.
Track usage to assess the success of each new feature. When you design a new user story, plan to measure how much it is used, and whether users achieve their expected goals. Application Insights gives you basic usage data such as web page views, and you can insert code to track the user experience in more detail.
Azure Mobile Apps provides many useful functions that can save you time when building a backend for a Mobile application. It allows you to do simple provisioning and management of data stored in a SQL Database. With server-side code you can easily use additional data storage options like blob storage or MongoDB. Mobile Apps provides support for notifications, though in certain cases you can instead use Notification Hubs as described next. The service also has a REST API that your mobile application can call to get work done. Mobile Apps also provides the ability to authenticate users through Microsoft and Active Directory as well as other well-known identity providers like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
You can use other Azure Services like Service Bus and worker roles, and connect to on-premises systems. You can even consume 3rd party Add-Ons from the Azure Store (like SendGrid for email) to provide additional functionality.
Native client libraries for Android, iOS, HTML/JavaScript, Windows Phone, and Windows Store make it easier to develop for apps on all major mobile platforms. A REST API enables you to use Mobile Services data and authentication functionality with apps on different platforms. A single mobile service can back multiple client apps so you can provide a consistent user experience across devices.
Because Azure supports massive scale already, you can handle the traffic as your app becomes more popular. Monitoring and logging are supported to help troubleshoot issues and manage performance.
While you can write code to do notifications in Azure Mobile Apps, Notification Hubs is optimized to broadcast millions of highly personalized push notifications within minutes. You don't have to worry about details like mobile carrier or device manufacturer. You can target individual or millions of users with a single API call.
Notification Hubs is designed to work with any backend. You can use Azure Mobile Apps, a custom backend in the cloud running on any provider or an on-premises backend.
Notification Hub Scenarios If you were writing a mobile game where players took turns, you may need to notify player 2 that player 1 finished her turn. If that's all you need to do, you could just use Mobile Apps. But if you had 100,000 users play your game and you want to send a time sensitive free offer to everyone, Notification Hubs is the better choice.
You can send breaking news, sporting events, and product announcement notifications to millions of users with low latency. Enterprises can notify their employees about new time sensitive communications, such as sales leads, so employees don’t have to constantly check email or other applications to stay informed. You can also send one-time-passwords required for multi-factor authentication.
Queuing is a simple idea: One application places a message in a queue, and that message is eventually read by another application. If your application needs just this straightforward service, Azure Queues might be the best choice.
Because of the way the Azure grew over time, Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues provide similar queuing services. The reasons why you would want to use one over the other are covered in the fairly technical paper . In many scenarios, either will work.
Queue Scenarios
One common use of queues today is to let a web role instance communicate with a worker role instance within the same Cloud Services application.
For example, suppose you create an Azure application for video sharing. The application consists of PHP code running in a web role that lets users upload and watch videos, together with a worker role implemented in C# that translates uploaded video into various formats.
When a web role instance gets a new video from a user, it can store the video in a blob, then send a message to a worker role via a queue telling it where to find this new video. A worker role instance-it doesn't matter which one-will then read the message from the queue and carry out the required video translations in the background.
Structuring an application in this way allows asynchronous processing, and it also makes the application easier to scale, since the number of web role instances and worker role instances can be varied independently. You can also use the queue size as a trigger to scale the number of worker roles up and down. Too high, and you add more roles. When it gets lower, you can reduce the number of running roles to save money.
You can use this same pattern between many different parts of your application even if they don't use web and worker roles. It allows you to scale the parts on either side of the queue up and down as demand and processing time requires.
Service Bus provides a Publish-and-subscribe mechanism called Topics and Subscriptions. With publish-subscribe, an application can send messages to a topic, while other applications can create subscriptions to this topic. This allows one-to-many communication among a set of applications, letting the same message be read by multiple recipients.
Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions Scenarios
Anytime your are setting up where there are many messages that are all important, but various downstream systems only need to listen to differing subsets of those communications, Service Bus Topic and Subscriptions are a good option.