Microsoft Azure in Action

Part 1 Getting started with Microsoft Azure

Before you dive into the deep end of Azure’s ocean of services, you need to get comfortable swimming in the shallow end. Azure can look enormous at first glance—with hundreds of services, countless acronyms, and enough regions across the world to make you dizzy—but the first steps are all about the basics. Once you know how the pieces fit together, you’ll see that the platform is less of a maze and more of a toolbox.

In this part, we focus on laying that foundation. You’ll learn what Azure actually is, how cloud computing works (hint: no real clouds involved), and why companies large and small choose Azure for speed, scalability, and reliability. We’ll also get hands-on with the tools you’ll use ...