This book is designed to help you and your team prepare for the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. Even if you don't plan to take the exam, this book will help you gain a solid understanding of Microsoft Azure. Candidates who pass the AZ-900 exam will earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals certification.The AZ-900 exam tests your knowledge of four subject areas. Here’s how I’ll cover them in this book. I’ll start by going over general cloud concepts, so you don’t ne...

Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, thereby enabling a truly consistent hybrid cloud platform. Consistency removes hybrid cloud complexity, which helps you maximize your investments across cloud and on-premises environments. Consistency enables you to build and deploy applications using the exact same approach – same APIs, same DevOps tools, same portal – leading to increased developer productivity. Consistency enables you to develop cloud applications faster by building on Azure Marketp...

Virtual Machines are a very foundational and fundamental resource in Cloud Computing. Deploying virtual machines gives you more flexibility and control over your cloud infrastructure and services, however, it also means you have more responsibility to maintain and configure these resources. This book gives you an overview of why use virtual machines as well as how to create, configure, and monitor VMs in Azure Resource Manager.