Azure Core Services: Compute, Networking, Storage
Description
Introduces the principal Azure core services underpinning the platform: compute, storage, networking, and basic database services.
Learning Objectives
Learners will identify, describe, and compare the essential Azure compute, networking, and storage services, and state their uses and benefits.
Topics (10)
Introduces Azure compute options: Virtual Machines, Containers, App Services, Functions.
Covers Azure VMs, VMSS, their purpose, and configuration basics.
Overview of Azure Kubernetes Service, Container Instances, and how they support microservices.
Explores VNet, Subnets, Peering, DNS, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, public/private endpoints.
Examines Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door, Traffic Manager, and Azure CDN.
Overview of Blob, Disk, and File storage, storage accounts, scalability, and redundancy.
Deep dive into Blob, File, and Disk storage and their access/security models.
Describes entry-level database options: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Table, and their cloud utility.
Explains geo-replication, availability zones, scale sets, and autoscaling in Azure.
Introduce Azure Migrate, Data Box, Storage Explorer, AzCopy.