Cloud Basics
If you are studying for Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Exam, this guide will help you with quick revision before the exam. it can use as study notes for your preparation.
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What’s cloud
- Delivery of computing services over the Internet using a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
- in other words: a way to rent compute power and storage from someone else’s data center.
- Pay-as-you-go: You’re billed only for what you use.
- Instead of maintaining CPUs and storage in your data center, you rent them for the time that you need them
- The cloud provider takes care of maintaining the underlying infrastructure for you.
- On-demand access:
- You can treat cloud resources like you would your resources in your own data center. When you’re done using them, you give them back
- Instead of maintaining CPUs and storage in your data center, you rent them for the time that you need them
- The real value of the cloud: speed
- Enables you to quickly solve your business challenges and bring cutting edge solutions to your users.
- In less time than it takes to eat lunch, you can create & deploy a website on Azure
- A foundational building block of everything from digital transformation to the next big startup.
Why move to the cloud
- Move faster and innovate in ways that were once nearly impossible
- Two-trends in world:
- Teams are delivering new features to their users at record speeds.
- Software releases were once scheduled in terms of months or even years.
- Today, teams are releasing features in smaller batches
- Allows to schedule multiple releases a day
- Today, teams are releasing features in smaller batches
- Software releases were once scheduled in terms of months or even years.
- End users expect an increasingly rich and immersive experience with their devices and with software.
- Many ways to interact with devices
- E.g. they can recognize your face & voice commands
- E.g. mobile phones, PCs, tablets, VR headsets, webpages…
- Many ways to interact with devices
- The cloud provides on-demand access to:
- A nearly limitless pool of raw compute, storage, and networking components.
- Speech recognition and other cognitive services that help make your application stand out from the crowd.
- Analytics services that enable you to make sense of telemetry data coming back from your software and devices.
- Teams are delivering new features to their users at record speeds.
- While migrating your existing apps to virtual machines is a good start, the cloud is more than just “a different place to run your virtual machines”.
- It can provide AI and machine-learning, storage (that grows with your needs) and more.
