Category: AZ-900

Organizing Resources with Azure Azure provides a logical hierarchy to help organize and manage your cloud assets: Explore these tools hands-on in our AZ-900 video course and see what’s possible! Alternatively, please go back to our list of AZ-900 requirements. Please click here to find out more about Microsoft’s AZ-900 exam.

An Azure subscription is a logical unit that links user accounts and resources to an Azure account. It acts as a central container for billing, access control, and resource management. Subscriptions play a key role in organizing, tracking, and controlling your use of Azure services. What Is an Azure Subscription? A subscription allows you to READ MORE

In Azure, a resource is any individual service you create and use. Each resource belongs to a category such as compute, networking, storage, or databases. Resources are the building blocks of your cloud environment. Types of Azure Resources Let’s explore the main types of Azure resources, each linked to different areas of Azure functionality. Compute READ MORE

An Azure Resource Group is a logical container that holds related Azure services and resources. It helps organize and manage your cloud environment by grouping resources that share a common lifecycle or purpose. What Is a Resource Group? A resource group acts like a folder. It contains everything that belongs to a specific project or READ MORE

Azure datacenters are the foundational physical infrastructure supporting Microsoft’s global cloud platform. They house the servers and networking equipment that power all Azure services and enable high availability, scalability, and secure access to resources. What Is an Azure Datacenter? An Azure datacenter is a physical building that contains large numbers of networked computer servers. These READ MORE

Azure Availability Zones are a key component of the platform’s high availability and fault tolerance strategy. They allow you to deploy applications and data across physically separate data centers within a single Azure region, ensuring resilience and continuity in case of infrastructure failures. What Are Availability Zones? An Availability Zone is a physically separate zone READ MORE

Azure is a global cloud platform with data centers distributed across various geographical locations. These data centers are organized into regions, which are essential to how Microsoft ensures high availability, regulatory compliance, and disaster recovery for cloud services. Azure Regions and Region Pairs A region in Azure is a specific geographic area that contains one READ MORE

Understanding the appropriate use cases for each cloud service model – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) – helps organizations choose the most effective solution based on their operational needs, control requirements, and development goals. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IaaS provides access to virtualized READ MORE

Cloud computing offers various service models to suit different levels of control, responsibility, and convenience. The three primary models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Each model provides a different balance of flexibility, control, and administrative effort. Software as a Service (SaaS) SaaS delivers READ MORE

Cloud computing offers various service models to suit different levels of control, responsibility, and convenience. The three primary models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Each model provides a different balance of flexibility, control, and administrative effort. Platform as a Service (PaaS) PaaS abstracts READ MORE