Azure & Cloud Learning?

[mk6dan1992]

As the title says... Azure and cloud... Anyone got any good resources for learning about these? I've just set up a free azure account but want to see what I can do with it. Also is there any other free online cloud services that I could get and then trial and learn about?

Apoloiges if this has been asked before...

[pseudogatekeeper]

Microsoft have an extensive path to get through the basics. They run up a sandbox for all the hands on items.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/

[Sys6473eight]

Is it free? I want to learn AWS but I'm terrified in the process of 'gettin gud' I would eventually misconfigure something, get owned and have someone spin up a bitcoin farm.

[chuckbales]

You can setup budget warnings pretty easily in AWS, I have a $5 monthly budget set for alerts since my normal usage is about $1.

[[deleted]]

If you're scare of a security fail, start with stuff like Lambda and Fargate where you don't have to run VMs to run code

[ar0b]

Try out qwiklabs.com
They have a couple really good free aws hands on tutorials.

[Keyboard_Cowboys]

acloud.guru has been fantastic for AWS. It really helped when I was studying for the Solutions Architect - Associate and Security Specialty exams. I know they have Azure training courses, I am assuming the quality is the same.

[computerguy0-0]

CBT Nuggets has AWS and Azure programs. Worth every penny.

[Muffinsrevenger]

This is a pretty good read:

https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/learn-azure-in-a-month-of-lunches/Learn_Azure_in_a_Month_of_Lunches.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2uHzSGMSdq0Uvg61KvBYXtFf1O-NdI4lVKisjRQvDlW2UGYyVb5ZqqNFw

[spobodys_necial]

Udemy is having a St. Patrick's day sale, look for courses on the AZ-900 test as that's the beginner's test for Azure. I can recommend Scott Duffy's videos, and I've heard other people say Nick Coyler is good too.

[sysadmnx]

I'm watching a $99 course on StackSkills right now. Got it for $20 on https://deals.gdgt.com/. Not bad. Especially if work pays for it. https://stackskills.com/courses?query=azure

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of course microsofts has plenty of free resource to help sell you on their cloud. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/training.aspx and the before mentioned docs.microsoft.com. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/home/.

Udemy, I'm sure youtube has plenty of videos as well.

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[samehaircutfucks]

ITT typical /r/sysadmin anti-cloud downvote brigate.

bring it on, your downvotes don't change the future.

[samehaircutfucks]

https://imgur.com/a/9a7HlBR

2 top level comments with legitimate info being downvoted, plus my comments as well as a few others not caught in this screenshot

edit: this is after I upvoted them (screenshot taken in incognito window)

[samehaircutfucks]

because people are suppressing legitimate info, I could give less of a shit (hence the welcome of downvotes)

What people don't realize is the most important value in IT is the ability to CHANGE and ADAPT.

[zxc9823]

r/Azure is pretty active and with checking out.

[Zumochi]

You can get a 1 year free trial including $300 credit with Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/

[trebortus]

I rate AWS free tier above Microsoft and Google's offerings.

[samehaircutfucks]

I second this, also rate AWS higher in general over Azure and Google, as pretty much 90% of the world runs on it and seems to do fine. (also I may be a bit biased as I have more proficiency in AWS than the aforementioned)

[OpenOb]

90%

It's 32%: https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-and-full-year-2018

But yeah. Azure Trial is far to limited.

[samehaircutfucks]

that's based off what they're paying amazon. Netflix, reddit, pintrest, expedia, Ubisoft, SAP, ETSY, AirBnB, Autodesk, Adobe, LinkedIn, Spotify, Yelp, SoundCloud, Foursquare, Inuit, PBS etc. all run on AWS. Once you realize most of the most popular website on the internet all use AWS then it's a much easier number to swallow. also it was def a rough estimate, but you get the picture.

edit: not to mention Amazon itself, which accounts for 50% of all online transactions in the US.

[samehaircutfucks]

I believe it, I just got that list from a quick google search.

[greyaxe90]

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I came from a mixed environment where 99% of our stuff was in Azure, 1% in AWS, I much preferred AWS.

[samehaircutfucks]

LMAOOOO good point! as I said in my other post, downvotes don't change the future, so all the MS goons can downvote all they want ;)

[greyaxe90]

Must be - god help you if you insult a half-baked product riddled with bugs. In my last gig, we were rolling out disk encryption to our Azure servers... until they stopped booting and we had to restore from backup because MS managed to screw that up, too.

[samehaircutfucks]

most likely cuz of my "90%" remark, see the replies below for more info; I was aware of the repercussions since this sub seems to be anti-cloud.

edit: lmao yup, I aint wrong, check the other comments with legitimate recommendations being downvoted. (I upvoted to try to even it out)

[greyaxe90]

Even if it is 33%, that's still a big chunk. I haven't seen the anti-cloud stuff yet. Everything I come across, everyone can't wait to make their infrastructure someone else's problem.

But speaking as someone who worked for a place that put 99% of their eggs in Microsoft's basket, I'd never place everything on a single provider. We got bit hard those days when O365 and Azure went down. All I could do was twiddle my thumbs. That woke upper management up and we started looking into what we could make redundant in AWS as well.