Over the past several months, there's been a strong surge of interest in the community around Microsoft Azure from customers who are currently using Amazon AWS as part of their cloud computing strategy. These customers are either interested in multi-cloud approaches that leverage Azure + AWS together, or they're interested in migrating application workloads to Azure to take advantage of unique platform strengths around increased geographic reach, hybrid datacenter integration, improved agility, and broad compliance support.
Microsoft Azure for Amazon AWS Cloud Professionals
As a first step down this multi-cloud path, growing your cloud skill set to include the Azure platform will be key. And that's where our new five-part series, Microsoft Azure for Amazon AWS Cloud Professionals, will help you get started! Of course, there are plenty of similarities between Azure and AWS that you can leverage to quickly grow your cloud muscles, but each cloud platform also has specific considerations and technical details that you'll need to know when building and operating cloud solutions.
To help accelerate your multi-cloud journey, join Gerald Tiu and me as we explore building solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform together from the perspective of an experienced cloud professional who has been using Amazon AWS …
- Part 1: Getting Started
- Part 2: Networking
- Part 3: Storage
- Part 4: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, and Containers
- Part 5: Migrating to Azure
Additional Resources
- Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services – Terminology Mapping
- Planning for Azure Subscription and Services Quotas
- Planning for Costs with Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator
- Create your FREE Azure Account with $200 in Cloud Credit
- Learn more with FREE IT Pro Cloud Essentials program
- Get Started with Azure Virtual Networks
- Azure Storage Learning Path
- Planning for Azure Premium Storage
- Azure Virtual Machines Learning Path
- Step-by-Step: Migrate Linux VMs from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure
- Step-by-Step: Migrate Windows VMs from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure
- Migrate Windows VMs from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure using Azure Site Recovery
- Transfer data with the AzCopy Command-Line Utility
- Introducing the Azure Storage Data Movement Library
- Microsoft Learning Course: Microsoft Azure for Amazon AWS Experts
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