Event Report : Azure Fundamentals Traning Course - PART I
--By Xin Wang
On Feb 26th, 2023, DFWCIA hosted an online training course for Azure fundamentals. Azure Fundamentals is a training course that familiarizes you with Microsoft Azure and its many services and features. Whether you're interested in compute, networking, or storage services, learning about cloud security best practices, or exploring governance and management options, think of Azure Fundamentals as your curated guide to Azure.
The meeting started at 2pm CDT. First DFWCIA president Xin Wang introduced our organization, and our event chair Rita Chen introduced all the volunteers who have worked hard to prepare for this event Rita Chen, Glen Fan, Shuming Liu, Mark Yin, Jie Song and our speaker Jude Chen. Jude Chen is currently a Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft. He has 20+ years in Server administration (Unix/Linux/Windows), IT infrastructure design and architecting, and 6+ years in Azure cloud infrastructure architecting.
This training course consists of 4 modules and extends for 2 parts, this is the first part, the second part will come on March 12th, 2pm CDT. Today’s session is composed of 2 modules. The first module is about cloud computing, Jude introduced the compute power, storage, networking and analytics. Jude introduced the types of cloud, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, the difference and pros and cons of them. Jude also introduced different shared responsibility models, On-Premises, Infrastructure, Platform and Software, as well as the difference among IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. In module 2, Jude introduced the core Azure architectural components, core Azure services and products, the Azure solutions and Azure management tools. After the knowledge explanation, Jude went through a hands-on tutorial of Azure portal. The entire seminar lasted for 2 hours and Jude shared a lot of useful information.
More than 110 people joined our seminar today and they all engaged in an interactive way. The audience came from different communities not only from DCIA, but also from Austin, Silicon Valley and Seattle. Our speaker Jude encouraged the audience to directly unmute themselves and ask questions as he goes through the presentation. Our audience asked “the difference between PaaS and SaaS and the related security concerns”, “difference between public cloud and private cloud”, “will deploying the region pairs cost more than to a single region” “Can resources be moved from one Resource Group to another easily” etc. Many great questions were asked and a lot of deep and solid technical discussions. The audience has learned a lot about Azure today, the heated discussions lasted until 1 hour later than our scheduled time. Thank you everyone for joining us today and we look forward to seeing you in our future events!