Regions, availability zones and the resource hierarchy

AZ-900 · Azure architecture and services · Updated

How Azure regions, region pairs and availability zones deliver resilience, and how management groups, subscriptions and resource groups are organized.

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In this lesson
  • Physical infrastructure
  • The management hierarchy
  • Resource group rules
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Exam traps
  • Practice questions

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  1. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the shared responsibility modelCloud concepts Free
  2. Cloud benefits - scalability, elasticity, availability and SLAsCloud concepts Free
  3. Regions, availability zones and the resource hierarchyAzure architecture and services Full access
  4. Azure compute and storage servicesAzure architecture and services Full access
  5. Networking, identity and security servicesAzure architecture and services Full access
  6. Azure costs - pricing, calculators and cost toolsAzure management and governance Full access
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