Foundational Concepts in Microsoft Azure

Introduction

In this lesson, we’ll learn the foundational concepts of Microsoft Azure. These concepts are the basic building blocks of any Microsoft Azure-based solution, so it is crucial to develop a solid understanding of them before proceeding further.

Resources

In Microsoft Azure, resources are the building blocks of any Microsoft Azure solution. Every service and artifact in Microsoft Azure is a resource. Examples of resources are virtual machines and storage accounts. We can choose where we want to deploy our Microsoft Azure resource by specifying a region, as we will see soon.

Resource groups

Resource groups are containers that hold closely related resources together. They are used to logically organize resources that generally share the same life cycle to ...