Azure Core Services

Microsoft Exam
Objectives Covered
In This Chapter:
DESCRIBE CORE AZURE SERVICES

Describe the core Azure architectural components

•Describe the benefits and usage of Regions and Region
Pairs
•Describe the benefits and usage of Availability Zones
•Describe the benefits and usage of Resource Groups
•Describe the benefits and usage of Subscriptions
•Describe the benefits and usage of Management Groups
•Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Resource
Manager
•Explain Azure resources

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 Microsoft Exam
Objectives Covered
In This Chapter:
DESCRIBE CORE AZURE SERVICES

Describe core resources available in Azure

•Describe the benefits and usage of Virtual Machines, Azure
•App Services, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Kubernetes
•Service (AKS), and Windows Virtual Desktop
•Describe the benefits and usage of Container (Blob) Storage,
•Disk Storage, File Storage, and storage tiers
•Describe the benefits and usage of Cosmos DB, Azure SQL
•Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for
•PostgreSQL, and SQL Managed Instance
•Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Marketplace

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 Microsoft Exam
Objectives Covered
In This Chapter:
DESCRIBE CORE SOLUTIONS AND MANAGEMENT
TOOLS ON AZURE
Describe Azure management tools
•Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Resource
Manager(ARM) templates

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Core Azure Architectural
Components
Geographies
•Aligned to specific countries (such
as US) or markets (such as EU)
•Provide compliance and data
residency boundaries

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Core Azure Architectural
Components
Regions
•Grouping of data centers
•Provide redundancy and availability
•Each region paired with another for
resiliency and availability
•You must choose a region when
creating Azure resources

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Core Azure Architectural
Components

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Core Azure Architectural
Components
Availability Zones
•A physically separate zone
within a region, each with its
own power, network, and
cooling.
•Two services that support
availabilty zones, zonal
services & zone-redundant
services
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Core Azure Architectural
Components

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Core Azure Architectural
Components
Resources and Resource Groups
•Resources are manageable items
in Azure
•Examples: Virtual machines, virtual
networks, storage accounts, web
app
•Resource groups are logical
containers for resources
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 Core Azure Architectural
Components
Points to consider when using resource groups and
managing resources:
•Lifecycle
•Resource assignment
•Location
•Scope
•Resource interaction
•Deletion
•Creation
•Tags

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Core Azure Architectural
Components
Azure Resource Manager
•Service that enables you to deploy
and manage resources
•Broker between management tools
and resource providers
•Uses declarative JSON-based
templates for creating and managing
resources
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 Azure Subscription and
Billing Scope
Azure Subscriptions
•Logical container for Azure
resources
•Can create multiple subscriptions
•Represent a payment agreement
•Serve as scale boundaries
•Serve as administrative boundaries

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 Azure Subscription and
Billing Scope
Azure Billing Accounts
•Manage invoices and payments
•Three types of accounts:
– Microsoft Online Services Program
– Enterprise Agreement (EA)
– Microsoft Customer Agreement
(MCA)
•Can have multiple billing accounts
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 Azure Subscription and
Billing Scope
Billing Scope
•A node within a billing account
•Manage invoices, payments, and
accounts in a granular way
•Billing scope options vary by billing
account type

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 Azure Subscription and
Billing Scope
Azure Tenants
•Specific instance of Azure Active
Directory (AAD), i.e., a group of users
•Provides authentication services for
cloud resources
•Can have multiple tenants
•One tenant can serve multiple cloud
services (M365, Azure, D365)
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 Core Azure Services
Virtual Machines
•Reduce physical resources
•Simplify deployment
•Easily scalable
Virtual Machine Scale Set
•Simplifies creation and
management of load-balanced VMs

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 Core Azure Services
Availability Sets
•Fault domain: logical group of
hardware sharing power and network
•Update domain: logical group of
hardware for maintenance
•Distributes VMs across update
domains and fault domains
•Can improve SLAs
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 Core Azure Services
Azure App Service
•PaaS offering for developing and
deploying web applications
•Supports multiple languages
•Load balancing, autoscaling, high
availability, and automated
management
•Windows and Linux support
•Support containers
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 Core Azure Services
Azure Container Instances (ACI)
•Package and deploy Windows or
Linux container images
•Docker open source
•Simplifies deployment and scaling
•Cost based on resource
consumption
•Support container groups for Linux
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 Core Azure Services
Azure Kubernetes Service
•Container orchestration service for
Azure
•Deploy and manage container
instances at scale
•Monitor, scale, and share
resources between containers

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 Core Azure Services
Windows Virtual Desktop
•Virtualization of Windows client
•Virtual Desktop client app or
HTML5 web browser
•Enables Windows on Windows and
non-Windows devices
•Easily deploy line-of-business apps
•Host sensitive apps
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 Core Azure Storage
Blob Storage
•Optimized for very large amounts of
unstructured data
•Accessible through HTTP and
HTTPS, Azure Storage REST API,
Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or
Azure Storage client library

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 Core Azure Storage
Blob Storage Tiers
•Different SLAs and cost models
•Hot access
•Cool access
•Archive access

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 Core Azure Storage
Disk Storage
•Presented as a disk and attached
to VM
•Replicas to achieve 99.999%
availability
•Three primary disk roles: data disk,
OS disk, temporary disk
•Server-side and disk encryption
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 Core Azure Storage
File Storage
•Presented as files not associated
with a disk or VM
•Available through SMB and NFS
protocols
•Replace file servers, transfer files,
store session data, other scenarios

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 Core Azure Storage
Storage Accounts
•Required before you can add
storage
•Contains Azure storage objects
•Unique namespace providing
access
•Multiple types of storage accounts
supporting different scenarios
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 Core Data Services
Structured and Unstructured Data
•Structured data: Defined by a
schema that determines the
characteristics and types of data
stored in a data set
•Unstructured data: No defined
structure and not organized in a
predefined way
•Semi-structured data: Hybrid model
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 Core Data Services
Azure SQL Databases
•PaaS offering for hosting SQL
databases
•No VMs or SQL Server software to
manage
•Microsoft manages the platform
•Focus on the data, not the
infrastructure
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 Core Data Services
SQL Managed Instance
•Similar to Azure SQL Database
•Adds features for auditing,
authentication, backups, change data
capture (CDC), and others
•Integration with Azure Data
Migration Service for simplified
migration to Azure Managed Instance

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 Core Data Services
Cosmos DB
•Multimodel database service
•High scalability and elasticity
•Supports multiple query methods
including SQL and NoSQL
•Supports Gremlin for graph
databases at scale

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 Core Data Services
Azure Database for MySQL
•Open source SQL
•PaaS solution
•Well suited for LAMP development
projects

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 Core Data Services
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
•Open source RDMS with origins in
POSTGRES
•PaaS solution for deploying and
managing PostgreSQL databases

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 Core Data Services
Azure Database Migration Service
•Supports multiple database
migration scenarios
•One-time (offline) and continuous
synchronization (online) migrations

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 Microsoft Marketplace
• Microsoft AppSource: business
solutions for Azure, Dynamics
365, Microsoft 365, web apps, and
Power Platform
• Azure Marketplace: Source for
Azure solutions, managed
services, and consulting services

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