--- title: Azure description: Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offering over 200 services. Learners will understand how to deploy virtual machines, manage databases, configure virtual networks, and build scalable cloud applications using Azure's infrastructure. category: programming-tech subcategory: cloud-computing difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/azure --- # Azure Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offering over 200 services. Learners will understand how to deploy virtual machines, manage databases, configure virtual networks, and build scalable cloud applications using Azure's infrastructure. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. r/AZURE Wiki Community-maintained index from the r/AZURE subreddit, collecting official documentation links, certification study threads, and recurring career questions. Readers can locate practitioner-vetted starting points and see which Azure services and exams the community discusses most. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/wiki/index **Tags:** azure, cloud-computing, community, certification ### 2. Microsoft Learn Azure Microsoft's free training catalogue of guided Azure modules and learning paths, each mixing short readings with sandbox exercises in a live subscription. Completing a path prepares learners for the matching role-based certification exam, from fundamentals through administrator and architect. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/azure/ **Tags:** azure, microsoft-learn, certification, hands-on-labs ### 3. Microsoft Learn Documentation Microsoft's official technical documentation portal, now hosted on Microsoft Learn, with product docs, API references, quickstarts and tutorials for Azure, .NET, Windows, Microsoft 365 and developer tools. It is the authoritative reference for configuring services and looking up platform APIs. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://docs.microsoft.com **Tags:** azure, dotnet, api-reference, microsoft-documentation, cloud-services ## Courses ### 1. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Learn Azure basics & get AZ-900 certified! This Microsoft course covers cloud concepts, Azure services, security, & pricing. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/azure-fundamentals/ **Tags:** az-900, azure-fundamentals, certification, microsoft-learn ## Podcasts ### 1. Azure Friday **Author:** Scott Hanselman Join Scott Hanselman every Friday as he engages one-on-one with the engineers who build the services that power Microsoft Azure as they demo capabilities, answer Scott's questions, and share their insights. Follow us at: friday.azure.com. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-friday/ **Tags:** azure, cloud-computing, microsoft, engineering-interviews ### 2. The Azure Podcast **Author:** Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos A twice-monthly podcast dedicated to all things relating to Security, Privacy, Compliance and Reliability on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Hosted by Microsoft security experts, Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos. https://aka.ms/azsecpod ©2020-2025 Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriquez, and Mark Simos. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://azsecuritypodcast.net/ **Tags:** azure-security, cloud-security, compliance, microsoft-cloud ### 3. Cloudcast **Author:** Massive Studios The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS .  **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.thecloudcast.net **Tags:** cloud-computing, podcast, devops, kubernetes, platform-engineering ## Books ### 1. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals **Author:** Jim Cheshire Microsoft Press exam reference organised around the AZ-900 skills outline: cloud concepts, core Azure services, security and identity, governance, and pricing. Readers finish able to describe Azure's service categories and answer exam-style questions on each domain. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0136877184?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, technical-skills ### 2. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches **Author:** Iain Foulds Twenty-one short lessons, each about an hour, walking through Azure virtual machines, web apps, storage, databases, containers, and serverless functions with hands-on labs. Readers finish able to deploy and manage a basic cloud application using the CLI and portal. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617295175?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, technical-skills ### 3. Learning Microsoft Azure **Author:** Jonah Carrio Andersson O'Reilly introduction covering cloud deployment models, core Azure compute, storage, and networking services, developer tooling, DevOps collaboration, security, and migration paths. Readers finish able to choose appropriate Azure services for an application and plan a move from on-premises infrastructure. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1098113322?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing ### 4. Azure for Architects **Author:** Ritesh Modi Packt title on designing Azure solutions: resource groups and ARM templates, high availability and scale patterns, DevOps pipelines, IoT and serverless architectures, and security design. Readers finish able to reason about trade-offs when composing services into a production architecture. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1788397398?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. 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