A curated list of AWESOME blogs, videos, tutorials, code, tools & scripts, related to the design and implementation of solutions in Microsoft Azure.
This list contains anything that can help with your Microsoft Azure architecture and quickly get you up and running when designing, planning, and implementing services that empower organisations around the planet to achieve more.
Community contributions are most welcome! Feel free to submit a pull request with any adds/removes/changes to content!
Official
Links below are from official Microsoft sources, websites, and channels.
Official MSLearn
- Microsoft Azure – Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Certifications
- Linux on Azure
- Describe core Azure architectural components
- AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
- AZ-305: Design identity, governance, and monitor solutions
- AZ-305: Design business continuity solutions
- AZ-305: Design data storage solutions
- AZ-305: Design infrastructure solutions
- Design an enterprise governance strategy
- Microsoft Technical Quest
- FastTrack for Azure Live
- AZ-720: Azure Support Engineer for Connectivity Specialty
Official Docs
- Azure Governance
- Azure Architecture Center
- Azure Architecture reference architecture
- Azure application architecture fundamentals
- Best practices in cloud applications
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- DevOps checklist
- Cloud Design Patterns
- Subscription decision guide
- Azure Security
- Microsoft Assessments
- Azure Service-level agreements
- Azure architecture icons
- Azure Table storage design
- Azure products
- Azure Migrate
- Azure for Partners
- Microsoft Azure Immersion Workshops
- Azure IP advantage
- Azure Bicep
- Azure VMWware Solution
- Visual Studio subscriptions
- Azure Lighthouse
- Develop your naming and tagging strategy for Azure resources
- Azure sustainability
- Azure compliance documentation
- Microsoft Investor Relations
- Hardware innovation for the cloud
- Mainframe rehosting on Azure virtual machines
- Azure Arc
- Compute decision tree
- Data decision tree
- Design for reliability
- Serverless design examples
- Ten design principles for Azure applications
- Azure security baseline for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Chaos Studio documentation
- Azure Virtual Datacenter
- Microsoft Azure Support
- Azure Migration Tool Comparison Matrix
- Azure Database Migration Guides
- Virtual Microsoft Datacenter Tour
- Architect multitenant solutions on Azure
- Azure security best practices
- Solutions and Training for Azure Active Directory B2C
Official Videos
- Azure Friday
- Inside Azure for IT
- Internet of Things Show
- Ask The Expert
- The DevOps Lab
- AI Show
- Reactor
- Code Stories
- Cloud Training Events
- Preparing for Azure advanced specializations
- Learn TV
- Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich
- Azure Enablement Show
Official Announcements and Articles
Official Books
- Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches
- Azure for Architects
- Rethinking Enterprise Storage
- Migration SQL Server databases to Azure
- Cloud Migration and Modernization with Microsoft Azure e-book
- Cloud Migration Simplified
- Get up and running with Kubernetes
- Designing Distributed Systems
- Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure
- Cloud Practice Playbooks
- Azure Resiliency – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Official Repositories and Tools
- Data Management & Analytics Scenario – Data Landing Zone
- Azure Quickstart Templates
- AKS Landing Zone Accelerator
- Enterprise-Scale – Reference Implementation
- Azure Landing Zones for Canadian Public Sector
- Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones for Terraform – Starter template
- FastTrack for Azure – Foundations
- Solution Architecture Questions
- Common Azure Bicep and ARM Modules Library
- FastTrack for Azure – Architectural Review
- FastTrack for Azure – Networking
- FastTrack for Azure – Governance
- FastTrack for Azure – Cloud Architecture
- FastTrack for Azure – Managed Disks
- FastTrack for Azure – Modern Service Management
- FastTrack for Azure – Landing Zone
- FastTrack for Azure – Vision AI Session Resources
- FastTrack for Azure – Azure Live Azure Purview
- FastTrack for Azure – Azure Live Sessions
- FastTrack for Azure – Azure Live – How to deploy Azure services and infrastructure. Leverage Azure Pipeline for CI/CD
- FastTrack for Azure – Monitoring
- FastTrack for Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop
- FastTrack for Azure – Identity
- FastTrack for Azure – AKS Operations
- FastTrack for Azure – Azure Marketplace
- FastTrack for Azure – FTA Live for Azure Sentinel
- Azure Infrastructure Map
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Azure Connectivity Toolkit (AzureCT)
- Alert Toolkit
- Microsoft Datacenter Migration Program Kit (DCM Kit)
- Azure Status
- Azure Stack HCI Solutions
- Azure Stack HCI Sizer
- Virtual machines selector
- Azure Certified IoT Device catalog
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- Azure Updates
- Azure Twitter
- Azure Resource Explorer
- Azure Pricing Calculator
- Azure Storage Explorer
- Synapse Machine Learning
- Azure Rapid Assessment Estimator
- Microsoft Exam Simulator
- Azure DevOps Marketplace
- Azure Backup Detailed Estimate
- Azure Review Checklists
- Azure Certification Poster
- Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner
- ALZ Bicep
- DevOps Tooling for Well-Architected Recommendation Process
- Azure AlwaysOn
- App Service Landing Zone Accelerator
- Mission LZ (Landing Zone)
- Microsoft Azure – Feedback
- Cloud Adoption Framework – Code samples and templates related to landing zone creation
Official Forums and Feedback
Official Podcasts
Community
Links below are from community sources, websites, and channels.
Community Videos
Community Podcasts
- The Azure Security Podcast
- Azure Centric Podcast
- The Azure Podcast
- Azure Lunch
- Sarah Leans Podcast
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure
Community Books
- Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Exam Ref AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects : Designing Cloud Solutions
- Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design
- Microsoft 365 Security for IT Pros
Community Articles
- Microsoft Sentinel in Action: Architect, design, implement, and operate Microsoft Sentinel as the core of your security solutions
- Azure Architecture – Design Principles and Lessons Learned
- Azure DevOps and creating your Cloud Adoption Framework
- Azure Citadel
- Microsoft Azure – Wikipedia
- Microsoft Azure – Center for Internet Security
- How to write a design document for Azure
- Study Guide for Azure Architect exam AZ-305: Part 1 – Design a Governance Solution
- Study Guide for Azure Architect exam AZ-305: Part 2 – Design Authentication and Authorization Solutions
- Azure in Plain English
Community Tools
- AzAdvertizer
- AzGovViz
- Azure Optimization Engine
- PSRule for Azure
- Continuous Cloud Optimization Power BI Dashboards Project
- Azure Tenant Security Solution (AzTS)
- Azure Network Security
- The Azure Readiness Checklist
- MSLab
- Cloud Harmony
- Azure Charts
- Azure Speed
- Azure Virtual Network Capacity Planner
- Azure SQL Database DTU Calculator
- Docs Update Tracker
- Terraform
- Public Cloud Comparison
- Azure Services Periodic Table
- Cloud Custodian
- Azure IP Ranges
- Azure Price
- Microsoft Portals
- Service Bus Explorer
- Azure Arc Jumpstart (Arcbox)
- AzureFeeds
- dotnet-azure-naming
- Microsoft Cert Comp Explorer
- Azure permissions reference
- Managed Azure Bastion Savings Calculator
Community Repositories
- Must Learn KQL – the series, the book, the merch store
- Azure Stack HCI Hands-on-lab guides
- Azure Governance made simple
- Azure Resource Inventory
- Traffic Flow in Common Azure Networking Patterns
- Azure Design Stencils
- Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook
- Azure Architecture
- Microsoft Azure Security Control Mappings to MITRE ATT&CK
Community Forums
Community Discord
Community Slack
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