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Azure Fundamentals Textbook

A free, self-paced textbook in 6 chapters. Read a chapter, then drill it with the 207 companion flashcards using spaced repetition.

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Chapters

  1. 1Azure Foundations: Geography, Architecture, and Core Concepts

    Microsoft Azure organizes its global infrastructure into regions, which are geographic areas containing one or more datacenters connected through a low-latency regional network. Wi...

  2. 2Compute Services: VMs, Containers, and Serverless

    Azure Virtual Machines provide IaaS compute that is ideal for lift-and-shift migrations of legacy applications that require full control over the operating system and middleware. T...

  3. 3Storage, Databases, and Data Platforms

    Azure Storage underpins most data services on the platform. Azure Blob Storage is optimized for massive amounts of unstructured object data such as images, videos, audio, and backu...

  4. 4Networking, Security, and Identity

    Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for private networking in Azure, enabling resources to communicate securely with each other, the internet, and on-pre...

  5. 5Governance, Compliance, Monitoring, and Cost Management

    Azure provides a rich set of governance tools for large enterprises. Azure Policy creates, assigns, and manages rules that enforce standards over resources, such as allowed SKUs, r...

  6. 6Architecture, Migration, and Developer Services

    The Azure Well-Architected Framework provides best-practice guidance built on five pillars: Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Secu...

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