CLOUD CONCEPTS
Bigfoot owns his network, runs them in his bunker, and lets nobody else touch them.
Private Cloud
A YouTuber dumps 4 TB of old cat videos here for cheap long-term storage.
Azure Blob Storage
Cousin Larry's password is '123456,' but the system also demands a code from his phone
multi-factor authentication (MFA
This free tool estimates the monthly cost of three VMs and a database.
What is the Azure Pricing Calculator?
VMs, storage, and databases all live inside this logical bucket together.
What is a resource group
A taco truck only charges you for tacos you actually order.
Pay as you go
You need full control of the operating system to install your weird Linux kernel module.
Azure Virtual Machine
The intern role can read storage accounts but cannot delete VMs.
RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)?
The dev team spent $8,000 in a weekend; this would have texted you at $500.
Azure Cost Management or Budgets
Finance wants every resource labeled with a 'CostCenter' for reporting.
What are tags?
Your website auto-adds servers during a Taylor Swift concert and drops them at 2 AM.
Elasticity or Horizontal Scaling
A hot dog stand wants a website with auto-scaling and SSL but doesn't know what an OS is.
Azure App Service
The peasants only get access to the tools the actually use when they go into the shed.
What is law of least privilege?
Microsoft promises 99.99% uptime; miss it, and you get this — not cash
What is a service credit
Corporate says 'US regions only,' and Azure blocks the South Africa deployment.
What is Azure Policy?
Grandma's app runs in Azure, but her database stays in the closet at home.
Hybrid Cloud
You want code to run only when someone uploads a file, and pay nothing when idle.
Azure Functions
Employees can manage their user’s here.
Entra ID
You commit to 50 VMs for 3 years and get up to 72% off.
What is a Reserved Instance
A JSON file deploys identical environments to three regions without portal clicks.
What is an ARM template?
Buying a server up front is this kind of expense; renting cloud time is the other. What types of Expenses are these?
CapEx (vs. OpEx)?
An airline needs a database with fast reads in Tokyo, Vegas, and Reykjavik all at once with unstructured data.
Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft's security model assumes the bad guys are already inside the network.
What is Zero Trust?
Use your existing Windows Server licenses in Azure to slash VM costs.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
You apply one policy to 47 subscriptions at once using this container above subscriptions.
What is a management group?