April 11, 2024
Updated April 8, 2025
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Embarking on a Career as an Azure Administrator
An Azure Administrator is a vital technology professional responsible for managing an organization's cloud infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure. At a high level, their work involves implementing, monitoring, and maintaining Azure solutions, including major services related to compute, storage, network, and security. They ensure the smooth operation, performance, and security of the cloud environment, acting as a key player in a company's digital infrastructure.
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This in-depth guide to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) covers identity management, authentication, and access control in Azure.
Provides a comprehensive overview of Microsoft Monitor and its components, covering monitoring data, alerts, and visualizations.
This reference architecture provides a comprehensive guide to designing and implementing a scalable and reliable Azure Monitor solution. It covers topics such as data collection, storage, processing, and visualization, and provides best practices for optimizing performance and cost.
Authored by a team with in-depth knowledge and experience with Azure security, this book provides valuable insights into the architecture and implementation of identity management in Azure. Covers advanced topics such as federated identity and single sign-on.
This comprehensive guide for Azure administrators covers identity management and access control as part of Azure administration.
Is specifically designed for developers who need to integrate identity management into their Azure applications.
This cookbook offers a collection of practical recipes for securing Azure resources, including identity management, access control, and threat protection.
Covers security and compliance aspects of Azure, including identity management and access control.
Provides techniques and best practices for optimizing the performance of your Azure Storage applications, including how to use Azure Storage features like caching, compression, and replication to improve performance.
Provides a collection of recipes for common Azure Storage tasks, such as how to create a storage account, how to upload and download data, and how to use Azure Storage features like blobs, files, tables, and queues.
Provides a collection of best practices for using Azure Storage, including how to optimize performance, security, and reliability.
Provides a security-focused approach to using Azure Monitor. It covers topics such as log management, metrics monitoring, and alerting, and shows how to use these tools to improve the security of your Azure resources and workloads.
Explores the principles of zero trust architecture and provides practical guidance on implementing it in Azure, covering identity management and access control.
Covers secure software development practices in Azure, including identity management and access control.
Provides a tutorial on how to use Azure Storage.
Provides a collection of samples for using Azure Storage.
Covers the foundational concepts of Azure security, including identity and access management, network security, and data protection. Provides a good starting point for understanding the role of Azure Identities within the broader security framework.
Covers the principles of securing cloud environments, including identity management and access control.
Examines security considerations for Azure Stack HCI, a hyperconverged infrastructure solution. While not directly focused on Azure Identities, it provides insights into identity management and security best practices in Azure hybrid environments.
Provides an overview of Microsoft Monitor and the Operations Management Suite (OMS), a legacy monitoring solution that has been replaced by Microsoft Monitor.
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