Microsoft Azure Cloud for Beginners | Singapore

About this workshop

Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform and one of the biggest of its kind available. It provides both PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies uses Azure to support their operations.

In this class, we will learn the basics of employing cloud computing platforms and Microsoft Azure. Students will learn to leverage on Azure strengths and how to best leverage on the cloud technolgy.

Takeaways

• Free Azure Passes worth USD100 for every participants for the course
• Understanding cloud hosting model (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS) and what are the differences with on-premise environment
• Creating your first WordPress blog in Azure in just under 5 minutes (PaaS)
• Creating Linux machine (IaaS) in Azure
• Understanding auto-scaling, load balancing, etc
• Cloud security

Prereqs & Preparation

Please bring your own laptops.