Azure

Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment

Cloud Benefits

• Availability - 99.999% Uptime

• Scalability – Can expand services on the fly
• Accessible – Can allow anyone to access
• Agility – uses agile method of project management
• Billing and Cost Management - tools to monitor and project costs
Cloud Concepts | Benefits of Cloud
Cost Productivity
Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying On-site datacenters typically require a lot of “racking and stacking”—
hardware and software and setting up and running on-site hardware setup, software patching, and other time-consuming
datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock IT management chores. Cloud computing removes the need for many of
electricity for power and cooling, and the IT experts for these tasks, so IT teams can spend time on achieving more important
managing the infrastructure. It adds up fast.​ business goals.​

Speed Performance
Most cloud computing services are provided self service and The biggest cloud computing services run on a worldwide network
on demand, so even vast amounts of computing resources of secure datacenters, which are regularly upgraded to the
can be provisioned in minutes, typically with just a few latest generation of fast and efficient computing hardware. This
mouse clicks, giving businesses a lot of flexibility and taking offers several benefits over a single corporate datacenter, including
the pressure off capacity planning.​ reduced network latency for applications and greater economies of scale.​

Global scale Reliability

The benefits of cloud computing services include the ability Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery, and
to scale elastically. In cloud speak, that means delivering the business continuity easier and less expensive because data can be
right amount of IT resources—for example, more or less mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider’s network.​
computing power, storage, bandwidth—right when they’re
needed, and from the right geographic location.​ Security
Many cloud providers offer a broad set of policies, technologies,
and controls that strengthen your security posture overall, helping protect
your data, apps, and infrastructure from potential threats.​
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Cloud Concepts | Terminology
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet​
• IaaS quickly scales up and down with demand, letting you pay only for what you use. It helps you avoid the expense and
complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other datacenter infrastructure.​
➢ Examples of IaaS: Networking, Virtual Machines, Disks

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Complete development and deployment environment in the cloud​
• Purchase the resources needed on a pay-as-you-go basis​
• A superset of Iaas – includes middleware, development tools, business intelligence (BI) services, database management
systems, and more. Designed to support the complete web application lifecycle: building, testing, deploying, managing, and
updating​
➢ Examples of PaaS: Data Factory, Analysis Services, Application Services

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the Internet.
• The service provider manages the hardware and software, and with the appropriate service agreement, will ensure the
availability and the security of the app and your data as well​
➢ Software as a Service: DevOps, Power BI, Office 365

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Accessing Azure

• Home - Microsoft Azure

• Quickstart Center -
Microsoft Azure
ARM Templates
• Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM
Templates)
• JavaScript code templates used to create the
cloud based environment
• Templates should be used each time a resource
is created to standardize infrastructure
• JavaScript code templates used to create the
cloud based environment
• ARM template documentation | Microsoft
Docs
 Data Services
Easy-to-use Enables Lift & Shift of SSIS packages Key Concepts
Build ETL and ELT pipelines code-free, Should you not wish to re-engineer pre- Pipeline: a pipeline is a series
with built-in Git and CI/CD support.​ existing SSIS packages to take full of activities which can consist of
Powerful advantage of the capabilities copying data, transforming data,
Ingest all your on-premises, and software as and architecture of ADF, you can rehost triggering stored procedures, etc.​
a service (SaaS) data with more than 90 built- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in a Triggers: pipelines can have triggers
in connectors. Orchestrate and monitor at few clicks.​ that enable scheduling of pipeline runs​
scale.​ This requires an installation of Azure SQL Linked services: linked services are
Use the full capacity of underlying Managed Instance. More info here defined at Factory level, making use of
network bandwidth, up to 5 GB/s throughput.​ available plug-ins to connect to a wide-
Cost-effective variety of data sources​
Enjoy a pay-as-you-go, fully managed Datasets: datasets are pre-defined data
serverless cloud service that scales on demand. structures of source data that are used
Some pricing scenarios here by pipeline activities​
Integration with Azure Alerts Integration runtimes: IRs enable
You can alert your action groups when connection of Azure Data Factory to
pipelines do not run correctly​ your on-premise data sources via
a Virtual Machine installed on-prem​

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Budgeting & Costs
• Tools to budget and monitor
costs
• Drill down for each resource
to see where costs are being
accumulated
• Overview of Azure Cost
Management + Billing |
Microsoft Docs
Azure Costs

• Pricing Calculator allows you to estimate costs before implementing

resources.
• Select all resources needed for your environment
• Cloud Location
• Availability
• Backup
• Pricing Calculator | Microsoft Azure
Learning Microsoft Azure and Cloud Based
Services
• Training | Microsoft Learn
• Browse all - Training | Microsoft Learn
• Learning on your own
• Popular learning paths and modules

• Microsoft Certifications | Microsoft Learn