AZ-030: Microsoft Azure Technologies for AWS Architects

$2,250.00

• Duration: 4 Days
• Mode of Delivery: Online -Instructor-led training
• Job role: Solutions Architect
• Preparation for exam: AZ-204
• Cost: USD$2,250.00

This course teaches Solutions Architects who have previously designed for Amazon Web Services how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for Microsoft Azure. Lessons include virtualization, automation, networking, storage, identity, security, data platform, and application infrastructure. This course outlines how decisions in each area affect an overall solution.

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Audience

This 4-day instructor-led course is for AWS Cloud Architects with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on AWS who now want to design for Microsoft Azure.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:
• Experience (>1 year) as an AWS Architect designing secure and scalable AWS cloud solutions across storage structures, compute, networking, and their interaction with external resources/services.
• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
• Understanding of programming fundamentals and use of a scripting language such as PowerShell.
• Candidates will benefit from familiarity with Azure administration, Azure development processes, and DevOps processes.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Secure identities with Azure Active Directory and users and groups.
• Implement identity solutions spanning on-premises and cloud-based capabilities.
• Apply monitoring solutions for collecting, combining, and analyzing data from different sources.
• Manage subscriptions, accounts, Azure policies, and Role-Based Access Control.
• Administer Azure using the Resource Manager, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, and CLI.
• Configure intersite connectivity solutions like VNet Peering, and virtual network gateways.
• Administer Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Azure
In this module, you’ll learn about how Azure organizes subscriptions and accounts, and you can set up resource groups and templates to standardize creation and life-cycle management of your resources.
Lessons
• Subscriptions and accounts
• Resource groups and templates in Azure Resource Manager
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Determine the type of account and subscription best suited to your solution.
• Create resource groups and templates to standardize and manage solutions.

Module 2: Azure global infrastructure
In this module, you’ll see the worldwide architecture of Microsoft Azure and how that architecture affects the availability and reliability of your applications and sites.
Lessons
• Azure regions
• Azure Availability Zones
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Implement an architecture that provides the availability and reliability required by your solution.

Module 3: Implement Azure Active Directory
In this module, you will learn how to secure identities with Azure Active Directory, and implement users and groups.
Lessons
• Introduction to Azure Active Directory
• Domains and custom domains
• Safety features
• Guest users in Azure Active Directory
• Manage multiple directories
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Secure identities with Azure Active Directory.
• Implement users and groups.

Module 4: Implement and manage hybrid identities
In this module, you will learn how to extend your on-premise Active Directory accounts to the cloud, and how to sync the accounts.
Lessons
• Introduction to Azure AD Connect
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Use your on-premise Active Directory account to authenticate to your cloud solution.
• Sync accounts between on-premise and the cloud.

Module 5: Implement virtual networking
In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting, IP addressing, Azure DNS, network security groups, and Azure Firewall.
Lessons
• Azure Virtual Network and VNet peering
• VPN and ExpressRoute connections
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Design virtual networks with security in mind.

Module 6: Implement VMs for Windows and Linux
In this module, you will learn how to configure VMs for high availability and how to deploy and configure scale sets.
Lessons
• Configure high availability
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Implement VMs to create high availability solutions.
• Deploy and configure scale sets.

Module 7: Implement load balancing and network security
In this module, you will learn how to implement Azure Load Balancer, and how to set up security groups.
Lessons
• Implement Azure Load Balancer
• Implement an Azure Application Gateway
• Implement Azure Firewall
• Implement network security groups and application security groups
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Implement the components of load balancing.
• Set up network and application security groups.

Module 8: Implement container-based applications
In this module, you will learn how to configure the Azure Kubernetes Service and how to publish a solution on an Azure container.
Lessons
• Configure Azure Kubernetes Service
• Publish a solution on an Azure Container Instance
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Configure Azure Kubernetes Service for your solution.
• Publish your solution on an Azure Container Instance.

Module 9: Implement an application infrastructure
In this module, you’ll learn the basics of selecting an App Service plan, configuring your plan, and setting up Logic Apps and Azure Functions.
Lessons
• Create an App Service plan
• Create and configure Azure App Service
• Configure networking for an App Service
• Introduction to Logic Apps and Azure Functions
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Select an App Service plan suitable for your solution.
• Configure the App Service.
• Incorporate Logic Apps and Azure Functions into your solution.

Module 10: Implement storage accounts
In this module, you’ll be introduced to Azure Storage and how to configure network access, replication, authentication, access, and failover.
Lessons
• Azure Storage core concepts
• Managing the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Working with Azure Blob storage
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Select an appropriate Azure Storage account for your solution.
• Configure your storage account.

Module 11: Implement NoSQL databases
In this module, you will learn about Azure Cosmos DB and how to configure it.
Lessons
• Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
• Consistency
• Select appropriate CosmosDB APIs
• Set up replicas in CosmosDB
• Comparison with AWS DynamoDB
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Configure a NoSQL database solution by using Azure Cosmos DB.

Module 12: Implement Azure SQL databases
In this module, you will learn how to implement managed instances of Azure SQL database and how to configure it for high availability.
Lessons
• Configure Azure SQL database settings
• Implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
• Configure high availability for an Azure SQL database
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Implement managed instances of Azure SQL database.
• Configure your database for high availability.

Module 13: Implement cloud infrastructure monitoring
In this module, you will learn how to use Azure Monitor to set alerts and how to log and manage costs.
Lessons
• Monitor security
• Monitor cost
• Configure a Log Analytics workspace
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Set up security monitoring for your solution.
• Monitor costs by analyzing logs.

Module 14: Implement and manage Azure governance solutions
In this module, you will learn how to configure role-based access control and how to configure Azure Policy to force compliance with governance requirements.
Lessons
• Assign RBAC roles
• Configure management access to Azure
• Implement and configure an Azure Policy
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Configure RBAC roles for governance access.
• Configure an Azure Policy to enforce compliance with governance requirements.

Module 15: Manage security for applications
In this module, you will learn how to implement and configure KeyVault, how to register and manage applications in Azure Active Directory, and how to configure Azure Active Directory Managed Identities.
Lessons
• Implement Azure Key Vault
• Implement and configure Azure AD Managed Identities
• Register and manage applications in Azure AD
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Register your app in Azure Active Directory.
• Configure Azure Active Directory for managed identities used by your app to access data.

Module 16: Migration, backup, and disaster recovery management
In this module, you will learn how to migrate workloads, and now to manage backup, disaster recovery, and updates.
Lessons
• Migrate workloads
• Implement Azure Backup for VMs
• Implement disaster recovery
• Comparison with AWS
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Migrate workloads to the cloud and across VMs.
• Implement cloud backups.
• Implement disaster recovery options.
• Implement update strategies that avoid negative impacts to availability and performance.

Schedule

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Our minimum class-size is 3 for this course.
If there are no scheduled dates for this course, it can be customized to suit the time and skill needs of clients and it can be held online, at a rented location or at your premises.
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Product Information

Azure is an open source and flexible cloud platform which helps in development, service hosting, service management, and data storage. The Azure cloud computing tool hosts web applications over the internet with the help of Microsoft data centers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is widely used to secure cloud services platform, offering computing power, content delivery, database storage, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.
AWS charges you on an hourly basis but Azure has a pricing model of per minute charge. In terms of short-term subscriptions, Azure has more flexibility but it is more expensive. Azure has much better hybrid cloud support in comparison with AWS. AWS provides direct connections whereas Azure express provides routing.
Azure machines are grouped into cloud service and respond to the same domain name with various ports whereas the AWS machine can be accessed separately. Azure has a virtual network cloud whereas AWS has Virtual Private Cloud. Azure has 140 availability zone whereas AWS has 61 availability zones.
Both Azure and AWS support hybrid clouds but Azure supports hybrid cloud better.
Azure offers express routes while AWS offers direct connection.
Azure provides security by offering permissions on the whole account whereas AWS security is provided using defined roles with permission control feature.
Azure machines are grouped into cloud service and respond to the same domain name with various ports whereas the AWS machine can be accessed separately.
Azure has a virtual network cloud whereas AWS has Virtual Private Cloud.

Parameters AWS Azure
Launched Date Launched in 2006. Launched In 2010.
Storage services
  • S3
  • Buckets
  • EBS
  • SDB
  • domains
  • Easy to use
  • SQS
  • CloudFront
  • AWS Import/Export
  • Blob Storage
  • Containers
  • Azure Drive
  • Table Storage
  • Tables
  • Storage Stats
Databases Services
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • DynamoDB
  • MS SQL
  • SQL Sync
Deployment Services
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon Machine Instance (AMI)
  • Traditional Deployment Models
  • Fine-grained updates
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Cloud Formation
 Cspkg (fancy zip file)
Upload via portal or API via blob storage
Course-grained updates
“click to scale.”
More magic
Networking Services
  • IP/Elastic IP/ELB
  • Virtual Private Cloud
  • Route 53
  • ELB
  • Firewall heavily configurable
  • Automatic IP assignment
  • Load-balancing
  • Azure Connect
  • Balancing
  • Endpoints defined in csdef/cscfg
Price Per hour- rounded up On-demand reserved spot.
Customers Adobe, Airbnb, Expedia, Yelp, Nokia, Netflix, Novartis. Pearson, 3M, Towers Watson, NBC, Essar, Serko, etc.
Type of Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Virtual Network
Connection type Direct Connect ExpressRoute
Pricing models
  • Free Tier
  • Per Hour
  • Free Trial Per Minute
  • No change for stopped
  • Pay for EBS volume
  • Free Trial
  • Per Minute
Government Cloud AWS has an edge as far as government cloud offerings. Limited reach for government cloud offerings.
Support for Hybrid cloud Does not offers the best of hybrid cloud support. With Hybrid Cloud, organizations can integrate onsite servers with Cloud instances.
Ecosystem AWS has a software marketplace with an extensive partner ecosystem. With very few Linux options, Azure doesn’t’ have a big ecosystem.
Support for Big Data EBS storage is ideal for handling big data. Standard storage has many issues for big data, and therefore you need premium storage.
Maturity More mature cloud environment for big data. The less mature environment for big data.
Machine access In AWS machine can be accessed separately. Machines are grouped into cloud service and respond to the same domain name with various ports.
Salary The average salary for “AWD engineer” is approximately $141,757 per year for Software Architect. The average salary for “Microsoft Azure” ranges from approximately $113,582 per year.
Key features Zero setups, Detail Monitoring, Auto-scaling groups. Startup friendly, High performance, Low cost.
Long term data archiving Allows long term data archiving and retrieval. Does not offer any long-term data archiving and retrieval option.
Security Security is provided using defined roles with permission control feature. Provides security by offering permissions on the whole account.

Additional Information and FAQs

CERTFICATE OF COMPLETION: Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of a course. This is not an official certification for the product and/or software. Our courses do indicate the appropriate certification exam(s) that the participant can sit. Data Vision Systems does not provide certification or deliver the certification exams. Participants are responsible for arranging and paying for the certification exams on the appropriate certification body.

CANCELLATION POLICY: There is never a fee for cancelling seven business days before a class for any reason. Data Vision Systems reserves the right to cancel any course due to insufficient registration or other extenuating circumstances. Participants will be advised prior to doing so.

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