Season 4: One Company, Two Clouds · Episode 2 of 8
A Home in Azure
You play: AI Engineering Intern
Included with Core programme and Certification prep
The situation
The decision record is signed: the creator service moves to elastic cloud capacity. Right now it runs off one machine Kabelo set up by hand, with uploads written to that machine's local disk. Priya wants it given a proper home in the Azure simulation — a resource group, the right compute, and durable storage on a private path — before the campaign traffic arrives.
What you'll learn
- AZ-900 Azure architecture and services: the resource hierarchy (subscription, resource group, resource), regions and availability zones, compute choices (VM, containers, serverless), object storage with redundancy (local, zone, geo) and access tiers (hot, cool, archive), private connectivity, and co-locating chatty resources.
- Azure's two maps (datacenter, availability zone, region, region pair, sovereign region; management group, subscription, resource group, resource); virtual networks, peering, VPN Gateway versus ExpressRoute, private endpoints and Azure DNS; VM scale sets, availability sets and hosting options; the Azure Storage services, LRS/ZRS/GRS/GZRS redundancy, access tiers and the file-transfer tools.
Who you work with
Priya Naidoo
Cloud Architect
Kabelo Mokoena
Platform and DevOps Engineer
Scenes
- 1.It runs off a laptop, basically
- 2.Which compute
- 3.Where the uploads live
- 4.Assemble it
- 5.Where it lives
- 6.Connect the office
- 7.The inherited mistakes
- 8.Architecture check
What you leave with
You assembled and repaired the simulated resource inventory, choosing storage redundancy and a private app path with reasons. The record distinguishes training aliases from provider commands and notes migration, replication, DNS and identity requirements beyond the fixture.