Linking all the key Azure resources in one place - One-stop shop!
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding highly reliable set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It is the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. Azure has more than 200 services with great end-to-end tools to make you successful. See, the list of Azure services offered.
Azure has great pool of information and help avaiable to empower you to achieve more. The objective of this blog is to consolidate and link all the essential resources available in Azure in one-place, to make it simpler to find information and your save time. It contains key information related to Azure -Subscription, Resources, Products, Services, Regions, Diagnostics, Logging, Troubleshooting, Community, Support and Help – Linking all in one-place.
This guide aims to serve has a docket linking all the key Azure information that you may interested in one-place (1-stop centre!) has been dividied into 7 sections, jump to the topic you're more interested in:
- Getting Started
- Pricing and Billing
- Tutorials and Samples
- Help and Support
- Optimize and Improve
- Security and Compliance
- Stay Informed
1) Azure Account: You can create a free account to get started plus you get a $200 credit (*based on the region) which you can spend during the first 30 days.
See, information on Azure Free trial
2) Azure Services: Explore all the Azure Products or Services that are available.
Checkout, list of Azure service
3) Azure Regions: Azure has wide global footprint- offering the scale needed to bring applications closer to users around the world, preserving data residency and offering comprehensive compliance and resiliency options for customers. Explore all the available regions.
Explore, available regions
4) Azure Subscriptions: Choose the best Azure Subscription that meets your requirement. Explore flexible purchasing options for Azure.
Explore, Azure purchase options
5) Azure Marketplace and AppSource: With Azure Marketplace, you can find, try and buy Azure building blocks and finished software solutions and you can find and try industry focused line-of-business and productivity apps on AppSource:
Navigate to Azure Marketplace
Navigate to AppSource
6) Azure Learning: Unlock your cloud skills in minutes. To get started, you can join the live session to get your questions answered in real time by Azure technical experts and learn how to get help when you need it.
7) Azure Migration: Make your cloud migration faster and easier with the Azure migration center. Find proven tools and processes that guide you in migrating your on-premises applications, workloads and databases to the cloud.
Checkout, Azure Migration
8) Azure Architecture: The Azure Architecture Center contains guidance for building end-to-end solutions on Microsoft Azure. Here you will find reference architectures, best practices, design patterns, scenario guides, and reference implementations.
Refer, Azure Archetecture
9) Azure Service limits: The following document lists some of the most common Microsoft Azure limits, which are also sometimes called quotas.
Refer, Azure subscription service limits
10) Azure SLAs: The Service Level Agreement (SLA) describes Microsoft’s commitments for uptime and connectivity.
See, Azure SLA
11) Azure Case Studies: Take a glimpse at the amazing things people are doing with Azure:
See, Case Studies
12) Azure Fastrack: Build and deploy Azure solutions quickly and confidently with personalized help from Azure engineers:
Explore, Azure Fasttrack
1) Azure Pricing and Calculator: Get the best value at every stage of your cloud journey. Meet your organization’s business needs and budget with competitive, pay-as-you-go pricing.Estimate the cost of running your solutions on the cloud:
Checkout Azure Pricing
Estimate, Azure Calulator
2) Azure Cost Management + Billing: Azure Cost Management + Billing is a suite of tools provided by Microsoft that help you analyze, manage, and optimize the costs of your workloads. Using the suite helps ensure that your organization is taking advantage of the benefits provided by the cloud.
Explore, Azure Cost Management + Billing
3) Azure Invoice: The invoice provides a summary of your charges and provides instructions for payment. It’s available for download in the Portable Document Format (.pdf) from the Azure portal or can be sent via email.
4) Azure analyze cost: Explore and analyze costs with cost analysis. Get visibility into the full spectrum of costs is critical to accurately understand organizational spending patterns.
Explore, Cost analysis
5) Azure Subscription switch: You can switch your Azure subscription to another offer in the Azure portal.
See, switch Azure offer
1) Azure Documents: Azure docs is the official documentation guide which provides a great insight across all the Azure Services,the docs aims at helping you started you can explore the most popular services with quickstarts, samples, and tutorials. It is the best way to get you started with any Azure Services.
Refer, Azure docs
2) Azure Code Samples: Learn how to get the most out of Azure services through code. Browse the samples base and leverage the best code.
Checkout, Azure Samples
3) Azure Knowledge Center: Find answers to common support questions.
4) Azure Videos: Join the talk and demo from with the engineers who build the services that power Microsoft Azure as they demo capabilities:
Watch, Azure Friday
1) Azure diagonse and solve: Within each Azure resource’s, to help you diagnose and resolve issues, find authoritative troubleshooting resources (tools, guided steps and articles) and easily get additional help as needed, diagonse and solve blade in the management portal is available.
Explore, Diagonse and Solve
2) Azure Support options: Get expert Azure help for your business. Ask questions, get answers and connect with Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts.
See, Support FAQ
Checkout, Support Community
3) Azure Support - @AzureSupport: Official Microsoft Azure account for improving the customer experience by connecting the Azure community to the right resources - answers, support, and experts.
Navigate, @AzureSupport
4) Azure Community Support Word class community support on Azure is provided on the following communities, do reach out to the experts when you have questions.
Microsoft Q&A and Stackoverflow
5) Azure Support - create a ticket: The official Microsoft Azure account for improving customer experience by connecting the Azure community to the right support.
See, create ticket
6) Azure Feedback: Submit your idea in the one of the respective Azure Service forums available or vote up an idea submitted by another Azure customer. All of the feedback you share in these forums will be monitored and reviewed by the Microsoft engineering teams responsible for building Azure.
See, Azure Uservoice
1) Azure Advisor: Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments.
Checkout, Azure Advisor
2) Azure Blueprints: Azure Blueprints makes it possible for development teams to rapidly build and stand up new environments with trust they're building within organizational compliance with a set of built-in components, such as networking, to speed up development and delivery.
Refer, Azure Blueprints
3) Azure Cost optimisation: Optimise your Azure costs. Manage your cloud spending and focus on what matters most to your business.
See, Cost Optimisation
1) Azure Trust Center: Microsoft Azure Cloud is built on four foundational principles: Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Transparency.
See, Azure Trust Center
2) Azure Compliance: If your organization needs to comply with legal or regulatory standards, start here to learn about compliance in Azure.
See, Azure Compliance
3) Azure Audit Reports: Review the available independent audit reports for Microsoft's Cloud services, which provide information about compliance with data protection standards and regulatory requirements, such as International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Service Organization Controls (SOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
See, Audit Reports
4) Azure Security Center: Azure Security Center provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads. Azure Security Center provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads.
Checkout, Azure Security Center
1) Azure Status: Get a personalized view of the health of your Azure services.
Navigate, Azure Status
2) Azure Service Health: Azure Service Health provides personalized alerts and guidance when Azure service issues affect you. It can also help you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources.
See, Service Health
3) Azure Resource Health: Azure Resource Health helps you diagnose and get support for service problems that affect your Azure resources. It reports on the current and past health of your resources.
Checkout, Resource Health
4) Azure Updates: Keep a tab on the important updates. Learn about important Azure product updates, roadmap, and announcements.
See, Azure Updates
5) Azure Announcements: See where Azure is heading. Check out upcoming changes to Azure Products.
Navigate, Azure Announcements
Hope the information shared here is helpful. If you have any questions or feedback on this blog let me know.