Luke Murray

Luke Murray

Microsoft MVP - Microsoft Azure ☁, Technical Consultant, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Technologist and a drinker of coffee.

How can I learn how to use Microsoft Azure?

4 minute read

Microsoft Azure is an ever-evolving public cloud offering. In layman’s terms essentially, the servers or virtual hosts you would usually host in your own datacentre are hosted in secure regions all over the world. Normal capacity concerns that you would have needed to manage in the past such as storage and memory is managed by Microsoft directly – giving you the ability to concentrate on what really matters – your applications and users.

More information on what Azure is and the services that offer (which is ever-increasing) can be found on the following official Microsoft web pages:

This mammoth of a public cloud offering often causes confusion around knowing what Azure is capable of and the hardest part is knowing where to start! To quote a famous Hobbit.

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – Bilbo Baggins

This blog post is intended to help point you in the right direction whether it is your first step on the road or you have already started your journey. Some practical ways to learn Microsoft Azure!

The links below are external to my website and I have no control over them. I have tried to categorise the resources in terms of skill level as much as I can and kept to training resources that are free, and I plan on keeping it up to date and add more as I come across them. Feel free to recommend others in the comments below.

Beginner: So, what is this outside world of Azure that you speak of?

Intermediate: I am excited! Now to eat supper

Advanced: Up for a Challenge! Let’s throw that ring in the lava

Other: I have a dragon’s hoard of gold to spend

Bonus Material: You have built the citadel, now its time to defend the wall

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