WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:04.160 Welcome to the course getting started with Microsoft Azure. 00:04.320 --> 00:08.000 I'm Barry and I'll be your instructor. I'm a software developer 00:08.500 --> 00:11.840 and architect with a passion for the cloud. What is 00:12.340 --> 00:15.840 this course about? Well, this is about the basics of Azure. 00:16.240 --> 00:20.000 So the what and the how. We start by going over 00:20.500 --> 00:24.560 the absolute basic elements of Azure. These are things like subscriptions 00:24.640 --> 00:27.170 and tenants, which are important to understand. 00:28.130 --> 00:31.330 Next, we'll look at more elements of Azure like availability 00:31.490 --> 00:35.090 zones, resource groups and fault and update domains. 00:35.730 --> 00:39.450 Also, we'll look at how to work with Azure, which tools 00:39.950 --> 00:43.970 are available to work with Azure, and what you can use to create infrastructure 00:44.470 --> 00:47.930 as code. Finally, we go over a bonus module 00:48.430 --> 00:51.410 that discusses how to manage and reduce costs in Azure. 00:51.890 --> 00:55.090 Overall, this course will set you up to get started working with 00:55.590 --> 00:59.490 Microsoft Azure. All right, we'll start with the basic elements 00:59.990 --> 01:03.250 of Azure, organizations, subscriptions and more. 01:03.570 --> 01:07.050 Let's dive in. Microsoft Azure is just one 01:07.550 --> 01:10.730 part of the Microsoft cloud. Microsoft has many cloud 01:11.230 --> 01:15.050 offerings and all of them have one common element. They belong to 01:15.550 --> 01:19.410 an organization. So for instance, your company might have Azure 01:19.910 --> 01:24.320 subscriptions and and also Microsoft 365 and Power Apps subscriptions 01:24.640 --> 01:27.040 and maybe even Dynamics 365. 01:27.600 --> 01:31.000 All of these belong to an organization and 01:31.500 --> 01:35.360 subscriptions can contain licenses that you assign. In Azure, 01:35.860 --> 01:39.360 licenses are used by virtual machines like a Windows Server 01:39.860 --> 01:43.960 or SQL Server license. Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 01:44.460 --> 01:47.200 also come with licenses that you can then assign to users. 01:48.010 --> 01:51.450 And those users are housed in a tenant which is 01:51.950 --> 01:55.650 an Azure Active Directory. That's right. Microsoft cloud offerings can 01:56.150 --> 01:58.770 share a tenant. This contains users, 01:59.270 --> 02:02.250 devices, application registrations and much more. 02:02.810 --> 02:06.850 Let's look closer at Azure. When we talk about Microsoft Azure, 02:07.350 --> 02:10.970 we usually talk about the global cloud. This is the public cloud 02:11.470 --> 02:14.740 offering that most of us use. But there's also Azure Government. 02:15.300 --> 02:19.060 This provides a special cloud that uses physically isolated 02:19.560 --> 02:22.820 data centers and networks located in the United States only, 02:23.060 --> 02:27.020 and only uses United States screened personnel to manage the 02:27.520 --> 02:31.020 data centers and support it. So this is specifically meant 02:31.520 --> 02:35.220 for use by United States government agencies. Okay. 02:35.540 --> 02:39.180 And there is also Azure China. Because of Chinese 02:39.680 --> 02:43.470 laws and regulations, this is a special cloud operated by a Chinese 02:43.970 --> 02:47.350 company. It is also physically separate from the global Azure 02:47.850 --> 02:50.390 network and keeps data only in China. 02:51.350 --> 02:54.830 As we are talking about basic elements of Azure, we also need 02:55.330 --> 02:59.110 to cover management groups. A management group is just what it sounds like, 02:59.190 --> 03:02.710 kind of a folder that contains things and can act as a 03:03.210 --> 03:07.070 boundary. When you create an Azure subscription, you automatically create 03:07.570 --> 03:10.930 it within a root management group and you can nest management 03:11.090 --> 03:14.610 groups and subscriptions. As you like to organize your Azure 03:15.110 --> 03:19.130 subscriptions. The point to all of this is so that you can assign policies 03:19.630 --> 03:23.890 to management groups. These can be things like only allow certain virtual 03:24.390 --> 03:27.890 machine tiers for this management group scope. We'll see management 03:27.970 --> 03:30.370 groups and policy in action later.