Azure for Architects: Design a Compute Strategy

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Free Online Course: Azure for Architects: Design a Compute Strategy provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Azure for Architects: Design a Compute Strategy is taught by Scott Duffy.

Overview
  • Explore the compute options of Microsoft Azure from the viewpoint of a solution architect.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • About the Azure compute services course
    • What you should know
    1. Azure Compute Basics
    • What is compute?
    • Azure compute options
    • Azure App Service and Functions
    • Service Fabric, containers, and Batch
    • Azure regions
    • Availability Sets and Availability Zones
    • Advantages of cloud computing
    • Alternative application architectures
    • Azure compute pricing
    2. Computing Options
    • Virtual Machines (VM)
    • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
    • App Service
    • Service Fabric
    • Functions and Logic Apps
    • Containers
    3. Managing Costs
    • Reserved VM Instances and Hybrid Benefit
    • Autoscaling
    • Migrate to serverless and microservices
    • Dev/test licensing
    • Auto-shutdown
    • Azure pricing calculator
    4. High Performance Compute
    • What is High Performance Compute (HPC)?
    • HPC options in Azure
    • Azure Batch
    5. Management Tools
    • Managing compute in the Azure portal
    • Managing compute using PowerShell
    • Managing compute using the command line
    Conclusion
    • Next steps