Microsoft Azure is at the core of modern digital transformation, enabling organizations to build scalable, secure, and intelligent cloud, data, and AI solutions. As businesses modernize from on-premises systems to cloud-native and analytics-driven architectures, professionals who can design, implement, and operate Azure workloads are in high demand.

This book provides a practical journey through Azure, starting with cloud fundamentals, accounts, governance, networking, compute, and storage. It covers identity and access management, security, monitoring, and cost optimization before moving into data and analytics, databases and big data, integration services, and application services. You will also learn about AI and machine learning, Azure Databricks, DevOps, and governance, concluding with trends like edge, serverless, and hybrid-cloud patterns.

By the end of this book, you will be able to design robust architectures, implement secure and compliant data and AI solutions, automate deployments, and optimize performance and cost. You will gain the skills needed to confidently support enterprise workloads, modernize applications and data platforms, and advance your career as an Azure-focused developer, architect, or administrator.

What you will learn

● Understand Azure architecture, regions, subscriptions, and governance models.

● Design secure networks, compute, storage, and data foundations on Azure.

● Implement identity, access, and Zero Trust security for cloud workloads.

● Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize reliability, performance, and cloud costs.

● Build data, analytics, and big data platforms using Azure services.

● Develop cloud-native, containerized, and serverless applications on Azure.

● Implement CI/CD and IaC with Azure DevOps and GitHub.

● Use Azure AI services to build intelligent, production-ready solutions.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers, cloud engineers, system administrators, solution architects, and DevOps professionals who design, build, or operate solutions on Microsoft Azure. It is ideal for beginner to intermediate cloud practitioners who want to advance toward expert-level skills in Azure architecture, security, data, and AI.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure

2. Getting Started with Azure

3. Networking

4. Advanced Networking

5. Computing

6. Storage

7. Identity and Access Management

8. Securing Azure Environment

9. Monitoring

10. Cost Management

11. Databases and Big Data Solutions

12. Integration Services

13. Application Services

14. AI and Machine Learning Services

15. DevOps and CI/CD

16. Azure Governance and Compliance