Microsoft Azure Data & AI
Microsoft Azure Data & AI
Introduction
The Microsoft Azure Data & AI masterclass that was conducted by EY learing encompassed the
absolute fundamentals in getting started with Azure. This masterclass was instructed by Madan
Mohan of the EY team and displayed superior professionalism and brilliant teaching capability.
The course covered various topic such Cloud Fundamentals, Storage, Networking and learning to
deploy a custom LLM on the Azure platform.
The session was divided into various modules to help easier understanding and development of
topics.
The cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four
deployment models.
Essential Characteristics
Service models
Software as a Service(SaaS) - The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s
applications running on a cloud infrastructure.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the
cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming
languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - The capability provided to the consumer is to provision
processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer
is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and
applications.
Deployment Models:
Private cloud - The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization
comprising multiple consumers (e.g., business units). It may be owned, managed, and operated
by the organization, a third party, or some combination of them, and it may exist on or off
premises.
Community cloud - The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a specific
community of consumers from organizations that have shared concerns (e.g., mission, security
requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be owned, managed, and operated
by one or more of the organizations in the community, a third party, or some combination of
them, and it may exist on or off premises.
Public cloud - The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for open use by the general public. It may
be owned, managed, and operated by a business, academic, or government organization, or
some combination of them.
Hybrid cloud - The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more distinct cloud
infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities, but are bound
together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability
(e.g., cloud bursting for load balancing between clouds).
It gave insight into Azure regions, region pairs and also made aware of Availability Zones. It
highlighted the various Azure datacenters around the world. This module thought us how to allocate
and manage resources and resource groups. This session also described Azure virtual machines and
it’s components such as virtual desktop, Azure containers, functions, networking and such more
topics.
It also explained Azure policy and using RBAC control to enhance security. This session highlighted on
the importance of Security and showed procedures such as Entra Priveledge Identity Management to
help ensure compliance with standard security policies and set forward a governance strategy to deal
with incoming threats.