Azure Infrastructure Solution Area
Purpose
A Collection of resources for Microsoft practice building in the Azure infrastructure solution area. For a view of other solution areas, please see the Taxonomy.
To contribute to the PartnerCrucible, see Contributor’s Guide.
Industry
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Partner Opportunity For Azure Services Providers | The A Total Economic ImpactTM Partner Opportunity Analysis | Forrester 2022 |
| Business Value of Azure Enablement - Whitepaper | Interviewed Azure customers reported that they have gained improved understanding and capabilities for their Azure environments, which has enabled them to optimize costs and IT team capabilities while improving Azure functionality and performance | IDC |
| 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services | Gartner® recently published its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) report. For the ninth consecutive year, Microsoft was named a Leader, and for the first time placed furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. | October 2022 |
| The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migrating To Microsoft Azure For AI-Readiness | Forrester found that migrating from on-premises infrastructure to Azure can support AI-readiness in organizations with lower costs to stand up and consume AI services plus improved flexibility and ability to innovate with AI. | Forrester |
| The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Arc for Security and Governance. | Read about the real impact and benefits businesses are experiencing by using Azure Arc to secure and govern infrastructure and applications across hybrid, multicloud and edge environments. The Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by Microsoft, examines the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Azure Arc for consistent security and governance practices. | Forrester |
| The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure VMware Solution | The 2024 Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (2024), a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, to learn about the potential cost savings and business benefits of using Azure VMware Solution, such as: A projected return on investment of 298%. $5.1 million saved in server refresh and decommissioning costs by year three. Enhanced performance and an 80% reduction in downtime, saving $4 million over three years. $1.2 million saved over three years by moving workloads into a system that doesn’t require retraining system administrators. | Forrester |
| Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service | Microsoft is honored to be recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) | Gartner |
| Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure | Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in this new category that includes offerings that deliver cloud-native infrastructure attributes, which can be deployed and operated where the customer prefers. | Gartner |
| Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS) | Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services | Gartner |
| Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service | Microsoft as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service via @Cedric Moula | Gartner |
| Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management | Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management. | 2024 Gartner |
| Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty now generally available, opening new pathways for government innovation | General availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty across all Azure regions. Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty helps governments meet their compliance, security, and policy requirements while utilizing the cloud to provide superior value to their citizens. | Microsoft |
| The Business Value of Azure VMware Solution | In this white paper, see the business benefits and ROI that organizations participating in an IDC research study reported from migrating and extending workloads to Azure VMware Solution. | IDC |
| Microsoft Ignite 2024 - Book of News - Azure Infrastructure | Key announcements from Ignite 2024 in the areas of : expandsion of adaptive cloud, Oacle Database@Azure, VM and silicon updates | Microsoft Ignite |
Azure Infrastructure Practice Building
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Infrastructure Partner Playbook | Describes Microsoft GTM Strategy, Solution Plays, Partner Priorities, and Key Resources | Partner FY24 |
| Azure Diagrams - Architecture Advisor | The Architecture Advisor tool enables you to design diagrams in a collaborative manner and provides guidance on which services can be integrated and when they should be utilized in your architecture. | |
| Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization - Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| Azure Profitability Infographics | Through 14 partner interviews with various Microsoft Azure partners, Forrester concluded that building and scaling a Microsoft Azure practice has the following three-year financial impact. | Forrester |
| Partner Resource Catalog - Well-Architected Framework | Azure | |
| Microsoft Assessments | Microsoft Assessments help customers work through a scenario of questions and recommendations that result in a curated guidance report that is actionable and informative. Assessments take time, but is time well-spent. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Rapid Assessment Estimator | Take advantage of the Azure Rapid Assessment Estimator, a Microsoft Excel workbook that rapidly generates estimates of your existing infrastructure and workloads that are directly mapped to Azure IaaS and/or Azure PaaS services that meet or exceed your current specifications in the Azure region(‘s) you specify. | |
| Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator | Estimate the cost savings you can realise by migrating your workloads to Azure | Azure |
| Azure Pricing Calculator | Calculate your estimated hourly or monthly costs for using Azure. Log in to the pricing calculator to create, save, and share cost estimates. Already an Azure customer? Create an estimate with your Azure agreement pricing | Azure |
| Azure Apps & Infrastructure Partner Sales Acceleration Program | Get best practices and presentation resources that will guide you in shaping a business-first sales model that delivers a new insight to your prospect and focuses on the Microsoft Azure Apps & Infrastructure solution area and its core sales plays. | Microsoft Partner |
| Azure for Partner | Main page for Azure resources for Partners | Azure |
| Azure for ISV | Build, Get Started , Scale, and Publish | Azure |
| Azure for Services Partners | Grow your cloud services business with Azure | Azure |
| Azure Blog | Azure Blog | Azure |
| Azure Updates | Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs. Subscribe to notifications to stay informed. | |
| Azure Migrate and Modernize: Infra Partner Forum | Use the form below to request access to the Azure Migrate and Modernize: Infra Partner Forum including community calls and discussion forum | Forum |
Partner Attribution
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Get Recognized for Driving Azure Consumption | Video Track impact across your customer engagements with Microsoft Partner Admin Link (PAL) | MS US |
| Partner Association Playbook | See pages 41-45 for Power Platform. Associations are the sole mechanism by which customer success, performance, and skilling category points are acknowledged and calculated towards achieving solutions partner designations). | Presentation |
| Link a partner ID to your account that’s used to manage customers | Microsoft can attribute influence and Azure consumed revenue to your organization based on the account’s permissions (Azure role) and scope (subscription, resource group, resource). If a group has Azure RBAC access, then PAL is recognized for all the users in the group. | MS Learn |
| Roles and permissions required to receive partner earned credit | The following roles map to permissions levels that determine whether a partner is eligible for partner earned credit (PEC). | Microsoft Learn |
| Use PowerShell to link to a new partner ID | Use PowerShell to link to a new partner ID | |
| Microsoft Learn | ||
| Platform engineering guide | Learn how platform engineering teams can use building blocks from Microsoft and other vendors to create deeply personalized, optimized, and secure developer experiences. | Microsoft Learn |
FastTrack for Azure
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FastTrack for Azure Blog | Microsoft FastTrack engages with customers and partners and maintain a collection of resources here | Tech Community |
| FastTrack for Azure | This repository has been created to share our FastTrack for Azure Live session materials in one easy to manage location. | Github |
| Migration Execution Guide | This repo contains a Migration Execution Guide, which has been authored and developed by a team of FastTrack for Azure Program Managers and Engineers working with the Microsoft SMC team, the Azure Advanced Cloud Engineering team and the Customer Success Unit | FAstTrack |
Azure Certifications
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure Certifications | Overview Poster | Microsoft |
| Microsoft Azure Training Journey | Complete role-based training and certification journey map | Microsoft |
Azure Roles and Skills
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Depth Workshops | Looking to strengthen your skills with intermediate to advanced technical training? View content to deepen your skills through instructor-led training with technical experts. Uncover new insights, learn about architecture and implementation considerations, and find innovative ways to support your customer business challenges. | On-demand |
| Learning Pathways | A collection of self-guided learning journeys to help you with your ongoing professional development. | @MrPaulGriffiths |
| Detective Kusto | Interactive Kusto Cases (KQL) | Detective Kusto |
| Azure Skills Navigator for System Administrators | A guide for deepening your knowledge of fundamental concepts of cloud computing and Azure core infrastructure services, management, monitoring, security, and compliance. | Azure Skills Navigator |
| Azure Skills Navigator for Solution Architects | A guide for deepening your knowledge of fundamental concepts of Microsoft Azure, core solutions, solution design principles, including security and compliance, and deployment tools and methods to help bring your solution architectures to life. | Azure Skills Navigator |
| Azure Skills Navigator for Network Engineers | This Azure learning journey is designed for network engineering professionals needing to recommend, plan, and implement Azure networking solutions, including hybrid networking, connectivity, routing, security, and private access to Azure services | Azure Skills Navigator |
| Azure Citadel | Azure Citadel is a community driven site devoted to getting hands on & learning Azure. Explore technical labs & videos across a range of Azure topics. Many labs are pitched towards the needs of the Azure partner community, but are freely available for all. | Azure Citadel |
| WhatTheHack - Infrastructure | What The Hack is designed to be a collaborative learning experience. Attendees “learn from” and “share with” each other. Without step-by-step instructions given for the challenges, attendees have to “figure it out” together as a team. This results in greater knowledge retention for the attendees. | WhattheHack |
| Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Academy | Welcome to the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Academy, your gateway to managing and optimizing your cloud infrastructure | Microsoft Partner Resources |
Azure Tools
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Datacenters Experience | Explore the core elements of Azure’s global infrastructure | Microsoft Datacenters |
| Subscription Vending IaC Modules for Bicep & Terraform | These modules are designed to help you streamline and automate the process of provisioning Azure subscriptions, making it easier than ever to get started with Azure. | Tech Community |
| Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) - Tools and Templates | he Cloud Adoption Framework has tools, templates, and assessments that can help you quickly implement technical changes. Use this framework to accelerate your cloud adoption. The following resources can help you in each phase of adoption. These tools, templates, and assessments can be used in multiple phases. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Design Review | A common request of many organisations, starting with the public cloud, is to have their design double-checked to make sure that best practices are being followed. The scope of this exercise could vary, from generic Azure landing zones to workload-specific deployments. Updated Checklists for LZ, AKS, AVS, Multitenancy, SEcurity, AVS, and SAP now includes Azure Spring Apps, Azure DevOps, and Azure SQL Migration | Github |
| Azure Resource Inventory | Azure Resource inventory (ARI) is a powerful script written in powershell that generates an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access. This project is intend to help Cloud Admins and anyone that might need an easy and fast way to build a full Excel Report of an Azure Environment. | GitHub |
| Azure Latency Test | This tool runs latency test from your IP location to Azure datacenters around the world. | Microsoft Data Center Optimization Program |
| Azure Governance Visualizer | from the collected data AzGovViz provides visibility on your HierarchyMap, creates a TenantSummary, creates DefinitionInsights and builds granular ScopeInsights on Management Groups and Subscriptions. The technical requirements as well as the required permissions are minimal. | @JulianHayward Github |
| AzAdvertizer | AzAdvertizer helps you to keep up with the pace by providing overview and insights on new releases and changes/updates for Azure Governance capabilities such as Azure Policy’s policy definitions, initiatives (set definitions), aliases, security & regulatory compliance controls and Azure RBAC’s role definitions and resource provider operations. | |
| PSRule for Azure | Ready to go rules for testing Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC). | GitHub |
| Awesome Azure Architecture | by @lukemurraynz - A curated list of AWESOME blogs, videos, tutorials, code, tools & scripts, related to the design and implementation of solutions in Microsoft Azure. | GitHub |
Azure Observability
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Monitor Resources | In this Microsoft Learn Official Collection, you will find a curated list of key resources to help you build a strong monitoring strategy and execute it with Azure Monitor. | Microsoft Learn |
| AIOps and machine learning in Azure Monitor | This article describes Azure Monitor’s built-in AIOps capabilities and explains how you can create and run customized machine learning models and build an automated machine learning pipeline on data in Azure Monitor Logs. | Microsoft Learn |
| What The Hack - Azure Monitoring | The Azure Monitoring v2.0 What the Hack provides hands on experience on how to monitor Azure workloads using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor Workbooks. This hack was designed specifically for infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, administrators and IT architects who want to build their knowledge on Azure Monitor. | WhatTheHack |
| Azure Monitoring Packs - V2 | Azure Monitoring packs | Tech Community |
| Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts | The purpose of this site is to provide best practice guidance around key alerts metrics and their thresholds. | Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts |
| What is Azure Managed Grafana? | Azure Managed Grafana is a data visualization platform built on top of the Grafana software by Grafana Labs. It’s built as a fully managed Azure service operated and supported by Microsoft. Grafana helps you bring together metrics, logs and traces into a single user interface. With its extensive support for data sources and graphing capabilities, you can view and analyze your application and infrastructure telemetry data in real-time. | Microsoft Learn |
Azure Well-Architected Framework
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Well-Architected Framework - Service Guides | Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of quality-driven tenets, architectural decision points, and review tools that help solution architects build a technical foundation for their workloads. Service guides are intended to help you in decision-making for individual Azure components within a workload. Each guide highlights the core features and capabilities essential for achieving a state of excellence. They aren’t configuration guides or exhaustive lists of all features and capabilities, but rather emphasize the usefulness of features from the perspective of the Well-Architected pillars. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Well-Architected Review | Examine your workload through the lenses of reliability, cost management, operational excellence, security and performance efficiency. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Advisor documentation | Azure Advisor scans your Azure configuration and recommends changes to optimize deployments, increase security, and save you money. | Microsoft Learn |
| Browse Azure Architectures | Architecture diagrams and technology descriptions for reference architectures, real world examples of cloud architectures, and solution ideas for common workloads on Azure | Microsoft Learn |
| Multilayered protection for Azure virtual machine access | This solution offers a multilayered strategy for protecting virtual machines (VMs) in Azure, ensuring accessibility while minimizing the attack surface for management and administrative purposes. | Microsoft Learn |
Microsoft Copilot for Azure
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot for Azure | Preview - GitHub Copilot for Azure - a new tool that integrates effortlessly with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code. Imagine it as your personal guide for navigating the Azure cloud | VS Vode |
| GitHub Copilot for Azure in VS Code | Streamline Your Azure Workflow: Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure in VS Code : public preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure - a new addition to your toolkit that seamlessly integrates with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code | Tech Community |
| Simplify IT management with Microsoft Copilot for Azure | Microsoft Copilot for Azure, an AI companion, that helps you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud infrastructure and services. Combining the power of cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with the Azure Resource Model, Copilot for Azure enables rich understanding and management of everything that’s happening in Azure, from the cloud to the edge. | Tech Community |
| Microsoft Copilot for Azure - Preview | Submit this form to register for approval to access and use limited public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Azure. |
Azure Landing Zones (ALZ)
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) | Dedicated topic page for landing zones | Partner Crucible |
Azure Lighthouse
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Use Azure Lighthouse with your managed service business | Learn about and adopt Azure Lighthouse for your managed service business to manage your customers at scale. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Lighthouse | Landing page - The native management portal allows Managed Services Providers (MSPs) to profitably and efficiently build and deliver secure managed services for every customer need. | Azure for Partners |
| Azure Lighthouse Samples | This repository contains samples to help you use Azure Resource Manager to configure Azure delegated resource management and to configure monitoring and management of customer environments. | GitHub |
| Azure Built-In Roles | Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) has several Azure built-in roles that you can assign to users, groups, service principals, and managed identities. Role assignments are the way you control access to Azure resources. | Microsoft Learn |
| Onboard a customer to Azure Lighthouse | This article explains how you, as a service provider, can onboard a customer to Azure Lighthouse. When you do so, delegated resources (subscriptions and/or resource groups) in the customer’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant can be managed by users in your tenant through Azure delegated resource management. -Deploy to Azure Buttons -Deploy the Azure Resource Manager template |
Microsoft Learn |
| Publish a Managed Service offer to Azure Marketplace | In this article, you’ll learn how to publish a public or private Managed Service offer to Azure Marketplace using the commercial marketplace program in Partner Center. Customers who purchase the offer will then delegate subscriptions or resource groups, allowing you to manage them through Azure Lighthouse. | Microsoft Learn |
Azure Arc
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Adaptive Cloud Academy | Microsoft Azure offers many ways for customers to build, deploy, operate, and secure their application and data estates, including customer on-premises assets and even customer assets running in other cloud providers | Microsoft Partner Academy |
| Arc Jumpstart | The Jumpstart provides step-by-step guides for independent Azure Arc scenarios that incorporate as much automation as possible, detailed screenshots and code samples, and a rich and comprehensive experience while getting started with the Azure Arc platform. | … |
| Jumpstart ArcBox for DevOps | ArcBox for DevOps is a special “flavor” of ArcBox that is intended for users who want to experience Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes capabilities in a sandbox environment. | Arc Jumpstart |
| Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps | ArcBox for DataOps is a special “flavor” of ArcBox that is intended for users who want to experience Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance capabilities in a sandbox environment. | Arc Jumpstart |
| Jumpstart HCIBox | HCIBox is a turnkey solution that provides a complete sandbox for exploring Azure Stack HCI capabilities and hybrid cloud integration in a virtualized environment | Arc Jumpstart |
| Landing zone accelerator | Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator for hybrid and multicloud – Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Docs |
Azure Reliability
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Getting Started with Reliability on Azure | Getting Started with Reliability on Azure: Ensuring Cloud Applications Stay Up and Running includes a reference architecture for reliability | Tech Community |
Workload - Azure Quantum
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Ignite 2024 - Book of News - Quantum | Microsoft continues transition to reliable logical qubits | Microsoft Ignite |
| Azure Quantum | Main page | Azure Quantum |
| Microsoft Quantum Innovator Series | Get the inside, first-hand account of Microsoft’s strategy to scaled quantum computing. In this series, you will hear directly from Microsoft’s Azure Quantum scientists and leaders about the path to quantum at scale and how to get involved today. | Azure Quantum |
| Azure Quantum Elements - Private Preview | Sign-up to learn more about the private preview and get the latest updates from the Azure Quantum team | Form |
| Video Playlist | Azure Quantum | |
| Azure Quantum katas | Quantum katas are self-paced learning tutorials assisted by Copilot in Azure Quantum. | Azure Quantum |
| Learn quantum computing with Azure Quantum | Copilot in Azure Quantum, here to assist you in learning and exploring coding for quantum computers | Azure Quantum |
| Announcing v1.0 of the Azure Quantum Development Kit | release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit, which we often refer to simply as “the QDK | Blog |
| Azure Quantum Development Kit | This repository contains tooling for the Q# language | GitHub |
| Quantum on Microsoft Learn | From intorduction, getting started, to superposition, to teleportation! | Microsoft Learn |
| Explore Quantum Hardware for Free with Azure Quantum | Azure Quantum offers up to $10,000 USD in credits for use against Azure Quantum hardware partners including IonQ, Quantinuum, Rigetti and Pasqal. Please complete this application to apply | Blog |
| Azure Quantum Credits | Form | |
| Quantum computing providers on Azure Quantum | This article lists the providers that you can access with Azure Quantum, and provides a description of what each provider offers. | Microsoft Learn |
Workload - Azure Networking
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Networking Services in Microsoft Azure specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Networking Services in Microsoft Azure specialization - Audit | Audit Checklist - Module B provides a list of the expertise and experience required | Partner Specializations |
| WhatTheHAck - Advanced Networking | In this hack, you will work through an example company, Contoso’s architecture requirements for their IaaS workloads. You will put together a network design for Contoso. There are multiple challenges in this hack. Follow these in order to deploy a solution to Azure that is secure, scalable and provides visibility into the your environment | WhatTheHack |
| Azure Networking labs | from @binals: This set of Azure Networking labs are simplified to demonstrate a single concept in each lab, using Azure portal or Azure CLI. Each lab has a lab diagram that provides information on the lab setup. Most labs build on each other so prior setup is expected. Please use the lab diagram as guidance if you are doing a specific lab out of order. | GitHub |
| Azure Network Security | Deploy Azure NetSec resources programmatically using scripts and templates | GitHub |
| Azure Network Security Ninja Training | In this blog post, we will walk you through basic to advanced scenarios for Azure network security. Ready to become an Azure NetSec ninja? Dive right in! | Tech Community 2022 |
| Accelerated Connections | This is the first blog in a series of detailed efforts and offerings addressing network disaggregation in the datacenter and how it intersects with Azure’s new Accelerated Connections offering. | Tech Community |
| Azure Networking: The Art of The Possible and the why | by @nehalineogi - The purpose of this repo is to deliver layered, reusable and github friendly network architecture diagrams for Cloud Solutions Architects to run effective Azure design and skilling sessions | GitHub |
Workload HCI
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI specialization - Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| Jumpstart HCIBox | HCIBox is a turnkey solution that provides a complete sandbox for exploring Azure Stack HCI capabilities and hybrid cloud integration in a virtualized environment | Arc Jumpstart |
Workload - Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop specialization - Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment | This article provides steps to apply the principles of Zero Trust to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment | Microsoft Learn |
| Use cases for Azure Virtual Desktop Insights | Using Azure Virtual Desktop Insights can help you understand your deployments of Azure Virtual Desktop. It can help with checks such as which client versions are connecting, opportunities for cost saving, or knowing if you have resource limitations or connectivity issues. | Microsoft Learn |
Workload - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure specialization - Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| AKS cluster with Azure Managed Prometheus and Azure Managed Grafana | This article shows how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster, Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana for monitoring the performance and health status of the cluster and workloads. | Tech Community |
| AKS Construction Set | AKS Construction dramatically accelerates this work by providing the templates and deployment scripts to quickly create a fully configured, Kubernetes environment, tailored to meet your operational and security needs, ready to run your workloads in production. | GitHub |
| Baseline architecture for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster | This reference architecture provides a recommended baseline infrastructure architecture to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster on Azure. | Microsoft Learn |
| AKS for Amazon EKS professionals | This series of articles helps professionals who are familiar with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to understand Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The series highlights key similarities and differences between these two managed Kubernetes solutions. | MS Lean |
| CI/CD for AKS apps with Azure Pipelines | Use Azure Pipelines to deploy AKS applications | Microsoft Learn |
| CI/CD for AKS apps with GitHub Actions and GitFlow | The example scenario in this article is applicable to businesses that want to modernize end-to-end application development by using containers, continuous integration (CI) for build, and GitOps for continuous deployment (CD). | Microsoft Learn |
| GitOps for Azure Kubernetes Service | GitOps is a set of principles for operating and managing a software system. This article describes techniques for using GitOps principles to operate and manage an Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster. | Microsoft Learn |
| Triage practices for AKS operations | Series of articles about triage practices, which describes the top-down approaches to addressing cluster health, node/pod health, workload deployments, adminssion controllers, and container registry connectivity | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Networking | AKS Networking (Docker Networking, CNI, Ingress, Egress) | YouTube |
| Replicate an Amazon Web Services (AWS) web application with AWS WAF in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | In this article, you learn how to replicate an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) web application with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) using Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Application Gateway in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). | Microsoft Learn |
| Porting a Web Application from AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | In this sample, you learn how to migrate a web application from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). | GitHub |
Workload - Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO)
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started with Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) | In this learning path, you will complete prerequisites, deploy your first cluster on ARO, connect to your cluster, and delete your cluster if needed. | RedHat |
Workload - SAP on Azure
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization- Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| SAP on Microsoft Azure Partner Forum | Our goal with this forum is to help accelerate our partners’ Azure SAP practices by providing a venue for direct engagement with Microsoft product and business teams. | PArtner Forum |
| WhatTheHack - SAP on Azure | What The Hack is designed to be a collaborative learning experience. Attendees “learn from” and “share with” each other. Without step-by-step instructions given for the challenges, attendees have to “figure it out” together as a team. This results in greater knowledge retention for the attendees. | WhattheHack |
| SAP on Azure landing zone accelerator | AP on Azure landing zone accelerator to set up and operate workload landing zones inside your Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale landing zone. The landing zone accelerator provides a specific architectural approach and reference implementation for your SAP systems on Azure. | Microsoft Learn |
| SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework | The SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework is an open-source orchestration tool for deploying, installing and maintaining SAP environments. You can create infrastructure for SAP landscapes based on SAP HANA and NetWeaver with AnyDB using Terraform, and Ansible for the operating system and application configuration. The systems can be deployed on any of the SAP-supported operating system versions and deployed into any Azure region. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Center for SAP solutions (GA) | GA Announcement Blog | Tech Community |
| Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) | Frameworks and automations that current cloud providers are offering to deploy, manage and optimize their SAP workloads | US Partner Blog |
| Azure Monitor for SAP solutions (GA) | GA Announcement Blog | Tech Community |
| What is Azure Monitor for SAP solutions | Azure Monitor for SAP solutions is an Azure-native monitoring product for SAP landscapes that run on Azure. | Microsoft Learn |
| Establish an SAP on Azure Center of Excellence | End-to-end solution enabling customers and partners to create and run SAP systems as a unified workload on Azure and provides a more seamless foundation for innovation on the Microsoft Cloud. | Tech Community |
| SAP on Azure Immersion Workshops | he SAP on the Microsoft Cloud workshop sets partners up for success as they engage with SAP customers. The content showcases the transformative potential of cloud services and what differentiates Microsoft as the preferred cloud platform for SAP workloads. | Microsoft Partners |
| SAP on Azure Resources | Documentation and learning resources including case studies | Microsoft Learn |
| SAP on Azure Video Podcast | Videos covering a wide range of SAP on Azure scenarios | YouTube |
| How to Drive Digital Transformation: RISE with SAP on Azure | Watch this on-demand webinar and learn about the advantages of choosing Azure for your RISE with SAP deployments. | Microsoft |
| Transform SAP Management with Microsoft Copilot Agents | Multi-agent platform to transform SAP management | Tech Community |
Workload - Oracle on Azure
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure | With Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure, customers now have a fully managed Oracle database offering on Azure to migrate Oracle-based applications. | Tech Community |
| Oracle Database@Azure | Oracle and Microsoft expand partnership to deliver Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure | Oracle |
| Oracle Database@Azure FAQ | Oracle Database@Azure FAQ | Oracle |
| Migration and modernization for Oracle workloads | With this new offering, Azure is the only cloud provider other than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to host Oracle services, including Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure datacenters. | Azure |
| Oracle workload best practices | The section about Oracle workloads on Azure provides guidance that applies the Azure Well-Architected best practices as the technical foundation for building and operating a highly reliable solution on Azure at-scale. | Microsoft Learn |
| Moving Workloads from Oracle Exadata to Azure: Top 5 Considerations | This eBook looks at 5 considerations when moving workloads from Oracle Exadata to Azure. | Silk |
| Oracle Database Workloads | This project documents the method of sizing on-prem Oracle Database workloads for initial migration into Azure | Github |
| Oracle on Azure IaaS | Recommended Practices for Success | GitHub |
| Oracle RAC on Azure | The goal of this post is to push past the idea that a lift and shift should always be a 1:1 move. It’s important when moving to the cloud to use the right tools, not just the tools you’ve always used, which is a very important lesson when it comes to Oracle Real Application Cluster, (RAC). | Tech Community |
| Oracle Database Service for Azure | Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is an Oracle-managed service for Azure customers to easily provision, access, and operate enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar Azure-like experience. Users can seamlessly build Azure applications with the high performance, high availability, and automated management of Oracle Database services, such as Autonomous Database, running on OCI. | Oracle |
| Architectures for Oracle database on Azure Virtual Machines | This article includes information on deploying a highly available Oracle database on Azure. In addition, this guide dives into disaster recovery considerations. These architectures have been created based on customer deployments. This guide only applies to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. | Microsoft Learn |
| E-Business suite on Azure | Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a suite of applications including Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). As EBS is an SCM and CRM system, it usually has many interfaces to third-party systems. The below architecture is built to be highly available within one region. | Microsoft Learn |
Workload - Azure VMWare Solution (AVS)
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure VMware Solution specialization - Requirements | Specialization Requirements | Partner Specializations |
| Microsoft Azure VMware Solution specialization- Audit | Audit Checklist | Partner Specializations |
| AVS Hub | a collection of resources for the AVS community | AVS Hub |
| AVS Labs | With AVS Nested Labs, you can set up a virtual environment that is similar to on-premises environment, without the need for physical hardware, and still be able to perform your tests and exercises in a safe and isolated environment. | GitHub |
| AVS Documentation (official) | Learn how to use Azure VMware Solution to deploy a VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) private cloud to Azure. | Microsoft Learn |
| AVS Partner Learning Path (official) | Learn how Azure VMware Solution supports enterprise customers in their transition to the cloud. Evaluate key features and differentiators. Examine the use cases and customer stories. Understand the support structure and options. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure VMware Solution Learning Companion | Azure VMware Solution Learning Companion | Learning Pathways |
| Learning Plan Resources for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) | The curated resources for each topic consist of fundamental to expert resources, encompassing a range of materials such as blog links, documentation, hands-on labs, learning paths, tutorials, videos, and more. | Partner Resources |
| vmware TechZone - Azure VMware Solution | Migrate and run vSphere workloads natively on Microsoft Azure while taking advantage of the speed, scale, and innovation of Azure infrastructure and native services. | VMWare TechZone |
| Azure VMware Solution Hands-on Labs | Learn more about Azure VMware Solution by taking a Hands-on Lab (HOL). See the service in action as you go through tasks such as deployment and configuration of an Azure-based SDDC, as well as advanced topics for specific use cases like cloud migration | Vmware |
| AVS Partner Bootcamp | This three half-day Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Partner Boot Camp, part of our GPS Azure Partner Tech Intensity Training, is designed to further enhance your AVS technical abilities through interactive presentations from some of the top Microsoft AVS architects. | |
| Azure VMWare Services Trial | Provide top AVS partners an opportunity to try AVS free of cost for when they are building/improving AVS services practice. The FY22 AVS Pilot Program provides top AVS partners the opportunity to experience AVS free of charge with white glove support from Microsoft. | AVS Pilot (Trial SKU) provides 3 nodes free for 30-day/720-hours. |
| Azure Well-Architected Azure VMware Solution workload | xamine the readiness of your Azure VMware Solution for production. Methodically check how your workload aligns with best practices for resiliency, security, efficiency, and cost optimization. | Microsoft Learn |
| Landing zone considerations for Azure VMware Solution | Azure VMware Solution can be deployed as part of either a new landing zone or an existing landing zone environment. Well-designed landing zones help you avoid operational overhead and reduce costs by promoting segregated Azure environments and the use of shared services. | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure VMware Solution landing zone accelerator | The Microsoft Azure VMware Solution landing zone accelerator is an open-source collection of Azure Resource Manager and Bicep templates. It represents the strategic design path and target technical state for an Azure VMware Solution deployment. | Microsoft Learn |
| AVS Enterprise-Scale and Automation Tools) | Enterprise-scale for AVS represents the strategic design path and target technical state for an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) deployment | GitHub |
| AVS Overview Video Series | The Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Technical Overview Series provides viewers with a basic understanding of the solution. VMware’s Jeremiah Megie and Steve Pantol will lead you through nine modules | YouTube |
| AVS Deep Dive Video Series | The Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Deployment Deep Dive Series will walk you through the things you should consider before, during, and after deploying your AVS private cloud - complete with demos! | YouTube |
| AVS Hands-on Labs | Learn more about Azure VMware Solution by taking a Hands-on Lab (HOL). See the service in action as you go through tasks such as deployment and configuration of an Azure-based SDDC, as well as advanced topics for specific use cases like cloud migration | VMWare TechZone |
| AVS TechZone | Azure VMWare Solution page | VMWare Site |
| AVS Micro-hack | Handling Azure vMware Solution (AVS) network connectivity and migration scenario from on-premises to Azure | Github |
| Migrate VMware Workloads to Azure | Collection - To help partners capitalize on this tremendous opportunity this go-to-market campaign in a box provides a series of ready-to-use co-marketing assets to help you connect with your customers in a variety of ways, from thought leadership to a LinkedIn campaign. | Partner |
| AVS Integration with Azure Ecosystem | @HusamHilal demonstrates the integrations that an organization can initiate between Azure #Mware Solution AVS private cloud and Azure services for modernizing 🚀 the service as well as ⚙️ the workloads running on it |