Hey guys, I am Venkat and this is Part 1 of Azure tutorial for beginners. In this course,
we'll discuss everything you need to know to build, deploy and scale applications
using Microsoft Azure. As you know, cloud is everywhere. It has completely changed the way
businesses think about IT resources and software solutions. Organizations of every type,
size and industry are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases. Even individuals like you
and me are using cloud and cloud services on a daily basis. Azure is a cloud computing
platform from Microsoft. Initially it was called Windows Azure, later renamed to Microsoft Azure.
It is an ever expanding set of services to help you build solutions to meet your business goals.
It offers a wide variety of services. For example, we have, virtual machines running in the cloud
for you to host and run your software. Storage services to store all sorts of data - relational,
non-relational etc. Software development and deployment services. Networking and data
analysis services. Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Internet of Things etc,
the list goes on. When we think about moving to a cloud from an on-premise data center,
two immediate things that come to our mind are - security and availability. How secure
is my data? If you are thinking your applications and data are more secure in your own data center
than in the cloud, you are almost certainly mistaken. Security and privacy are foundational
for Azure. Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of trust, transparency,
standards and regulatory compliance. In fact, if you compare Azure with other cloud service
providers, it has the most comprehensive set of compliance offerings. As of this recording,
Azure has over 90+ compliance offerings, the largest portfolio in the industry.
Every year, Microsoft invests over 1 billion dollars in security to protect customers data
and apps from cyber threats. 95% of fortune 500 companies trust their business and data on azure.
As far as availability is concerned, for most services, Azure promises 99.9
uptime and connectivity. Even with our own on-premise data center, it's very difficult
to achieve such a high availability and uptime. Now, many people think,
Azure is only for Windows apps and services. That's not true. Azure supports open source
technologies. So, you can use the tools and technologies you prefer. As of this recording,
1 in 4 Azure virtual machines run Linux. Why? because Azure supports the open source
technologies millions of us already rely on and trust. With Azure, we have choices.
We can develop, deploy and test open source components end to end in Azure. As an example,
Azure offers enterprise-grade support for all popular Linux distributions.
Run new and even existing business critical workloads in the cloud with Azure marketplace.
Almost, anything that can be done with a conventional on-premise data center, can
be accomplished using Azure. Actually, it opens a world of possibilities and help us build solutions
that we wouldn't be able to build with our own on-premise data center. Azure has a series of data
centers across the globe. So, we are able to take advantage of that global reach, massive scale and
build solutions that otherwise are practically impossible. In this course, we will start with the
basics of Azure and discuss everything you need to know to build, deploy and scale applications using
Microsoft Azure. Before you start this course, I strongly recommend to watch our "Cloud computing
tutorial for beginners" course. In this course, we've covered all the basics of cloud computing.
I'll include the link for the course in the description of this video. I'll do my best
to cover all azure related concepts, but in the meantime, if you have a specific concept
in mind that you want me to cover, please leave it as a comment on this video and I will surely
cover it in our upcoming videos in this series. Finally, your feedback means a lot and trust me,
it is your feedback that keeps me going. So, if you have a few minutes, please let me know your
thoughts and feedback on this course. I'm really excited to take you through the journey of Azure.
I hope you are too. That's it in this video. I am Venkat. Thank you for listening.