I was one of these beginners users who generated a thousand dollars bill with Azure, and Microsoft accepted my appeal to reject/cancel the bill, under the premise that I made a mistake. I really appreciate that, and now I'm using their services.
I am a MS Certified Azure Solutions architect and developer who started out knowing nothing about Azure. I highly recommend going through the official AZ-900 learning material and or watching AZ-900 video courses as a great place to learn about Azure and basic cloud principals.
I just started a job as a junior system engineer. We use hybrid technology of azure and AD at the moment. I would like to become an azure solutions architect. Do you think this Video would help? Best regards J
I totally agree, the MS Learn training courses are a great free resource for learning Azure. I recently completed all of the Learning Paths (courses) for DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB and found the training to be very good. The courses provided training on numerous different Azure Cosmos DB related topics: the different Cosmos DB APIs, Azure portal, VS Code, Azure Cosmos DB Emulator, Azure Data Factory, etc. BTW, I completed Tim's Azure From Start to Finish before I began the Azure Cosmos DB training on MS Learn.
Awesome, this is the perfect video I was looking for! Since the beggining of the year I was searching the right path to learn Azure, I'm glad you just uploaded this video, many thanks!
I was considering AWS and honestly after checking the market around where I work (Europe) and the way of learning along the job and school, Azure it is. You have genuinely made it so nice, straight forward and exciting to gain the knowledge! Thank you, sir!
I would always go cloud first but it's worth mentioning that server costs are capital and cloud is service base. The former being tax-deductible when written off.
Taxes will be different for different regions. However, both options are write-offs. If a business incurs an expense, they don't pay taxes on the income they use for that expense. I think what you are talking about is depreciation. That can be a benefit over time. Basically, you take a loss for the lost value every year. However, the benefits there aren't as great as people think. Plus, the costs for hosting a server physically are much higher than the cost of the server itself. You have the electricity, the cooling, the UPS, the redundant Internet, the firewalls, the networking, the time it takes to manage the server (updates, security, fixing issues, replacing bad parts, etc.), and so much more.
Hi Tim, I have been following your videos, they are very informative & out of box, you focus on important & key elements which is very essential. Keep going, please do more videos on Docker, Kubernetes
Hey Tim, Great video as always, I have a question tho ... what is the cost of not using Azure SQL or CosmosDB and using the database on container with free license like "Mongodb" and "MySQL , postgresql" ... will that be cheaper and is it worth the pain?
Tim, I have a hard time to learn which azure feature to use for my application. Can you elaborate in future the use cases that will help me decide choosing Azure functions, web jobs or service bus?
I've started to build a webpage to be hosted in Azure. So far I have successfully published the webpage to Azure, created the Azure SQL database and connected it to the webpage, and created a Blob storage account for the webpage's images (logo, and other images necessary for the webpage) but I haven't figured out the way to get the webpage to show these images. Could you point me in the right direction to learn how to do this? Thank you
That must be a lot of images. You can normally host your images with your site directly. To display them from Azure Storage, you would need to make the images publicly available and then just use the link they provide for each image.
I’d love to know how you’re getting a web app with external DNS for $9/month. When I set mine up, i was required to use a certain minimum performance level (one of the B series, IIRC) that costs significantly more than $9. Granted, I’m using standard web app, not static. I’m currently looking at moving my site to a Digital Ocean droplet for about $8 a month, but if I could figure out a way to stay on azure i would.
I use Azure Static Web App since my site is just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Those can be free, but for production they recommend that you upgrade to the premium plan at $9/month.
It is good for certain situations. It is a tool. Just note that it won't be good for all situations (or even most situations). Enterprise databases offer more than just additional expense - they offer data protections that are incredibly important to your business. Your data is your business. Without it, your business fails. So, don't create a cheap system that doesn't protect your data well enough.
I actually found that cosmos db is not free. The way I know that is there is once where I had a cosmos db database and for a while it was free. However, eventually I noticed an unusual charge on my credit card and I had a feeling it had to do with azure. So I checked and found out that for a few months, I actually got charged for cosmos db and no activity was on the database either. That forced me to delete the cosmos db.
It absolutely is free. However, it has limits. If you exceed those limits, you pay for the overage: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/free-tier
@@IAmTimCorey The sad thing is I never knew what part was exceeded that caused it not to be free anymore. I think I may had 2 databases. Some of the storage was somewhat large. I for sure as far as I know only had a single region. I wish there was a way to know enough to guarantee it would always be free.
It tells you what every call "costs" in terms of RU so you can definitely ensure you stay at or below the free tier, and they tell you how much storage you are using. You just need to understand how to track them in order to use it for free.
The elements of the course are interesting and the price for having a database in development around 5$ per month is reasonable. However, if I want to add user authentication to my learning, according to "TimCo Retail Management Course on UA-cam", I have to add another $5 per month for this service. Is there a cheaper solution than $5 per month for this service?
OK, the reason it is an additional $5/month is because I separate the authentication database from the application data database. So two databases, each at $5/month. If you used Azure Active Directory B2C instead, authentication would be free for the first 50,000 active users/month.
I was one of these beginners users who generated a thousand dollars bill with Azure, and Microsoft accepted my appeal to reject/cancel the bill, under the premise that I made a mistake. I really appreciate that, and now I'm using their services.
I'm glad you got it cleared up. It definitely is something to be careful of.
I am a MS Certified Azure Solutions architect and developer who started out knowing nothing about Azure. I highly recommend going through the official AZ-900 learning material and or watching AZ-900 video courses as a great place to learn about Azure and basic cloud principals.
I just started a job as a junior system engineer. We use hybrid technology of azure and AD at the moment. I would like to become an azure solutions architect. Do you think this Video would help? Best regards J
Thanks for the suggestion.
I totally agree, the MS Learn training courses are a great free resource for learning Azure. I recently completed all of the Learning Paths (courses) for DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB and found the training to be very good. The courses provided training on numerous different Azure Cosmos DB related topics: the different Cosmos DB APIs, Azure portal, VS Code, Azure Cosmos DB Emulator, Azure Data Factory, etc.
BTW, I completed Tim's Azure From Start to Finish before I began the Azure Cosmos DB training on MS Learn.
Was thinking exactly about aiming at AZ-900 for now, I just hope the MS content for Azure is better than what we got for Power Platform in SA.
Awesome, this is the perfect video I was looking for! Since the beggining of the year I was searching the right path to learn Azure, I'm glad you just uploaded this video, many thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I was considering AWS and honestly after checking the market around where I work (Europe) and the way of learning along the job and school, Azure it is. You have genuinely made it so nice, straight forward and exciting to gain the knowledge! Thank you, sir!
Excellent!
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Thanks for sharing.
I would always go cloud first but it's worth mentioning that server costs are capital and cloud is service base. The former being tax-deductible when written off.
Taxes will be different for different regions. However, both options are write-offs. If a business incurs an expense, they don't pay taxes on the income they use for that expense. I think what you are talking about is depreciation. That can be a benefit over time. Basically, you take a loss for the lost value every year. However, the benefits there aren't as great as people think. Plus, the costs for hosting a server physically are much higher than the cost of the server itself. You have the electricity, the cooling, the UPS, the redundant Internet, the firewalls, the networking, the time it takes to manage the server (updates, security, fixing issues, replacing bad parts, etc.), and so much more.
Hi Tim, I have been following your videos, they are very informative & out of box, you focus on important & key elements which is very essential. Keep going, please do more videos on Docker, Kubernetes
Thank you!
You're practical on steps: practicing well vs bare minimum or bouncing on thing to thing
Thanks!
Hey Tim, Great video as always, I have a question tho ... what is the cost of not using Azure SQL or CosmosDB and using the database on container with free license like "Mongodb" and "MySQL , postgresql" ...
will that be cheaper and is it worth the pain?
A hour long video on how to learn something. This should have pretty good info. Thanks for this.
Is learning aws easy after learning Azure?
did not notice the 1h length :D
Some of the concepts will be similar, and the overall idea is the same, but the two are different services.
Nice video, thanks a lot. What do you think about IaC and are planning any videos about it? Comparing Pulumi, terraform etc
Not currently, but it might come up eventually.
Hi Tim
Thanks for sharing this video
You are welcome.
Tim, I have a hard time to learn which azure feature to use for my application. Can you elaborate in future the use cases that will help me decide choosing Azure functions, web jobs or service bus?
I am really looking to learn it
Great.
hi Tim in what order should i take your azure courses, im a totally beginner in Azure, I am c# develope but never used azure before r
Start with Azure From Start to Finish: www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/azure-from-start-to-finish/
I've started to build a webpage to be hosted in Azure. So far I have successfully published the webpage to Azure, created the Azure SQL database and connected it to the webpage, and created a Blob storage account for the webpage's images (logo, and other images necessary for the webpage) but I haven't figured out the way to get the webpage to show these images. Could you point me in the right direction to learn how to do this?
Thank you
That must be a lot of images. You can normally host your images with your site directly. To display them from Azure Storage, you would need to make the images publicly available and then just use the link they provide for each image.
@@IAmTimCorey Thank you. I figured out what I was doing wrong.
Pls make KQL, Adx, and other data services
Thanks!
Thank you!
I’d love to know how you’re getting a web app with external DNS for $9/month. When I set mine up, i was required to use a certain minimum performance level (one of the B series, IIRC) that costs significantly more than $9. Granted, I’m using standard web app, not static. I’m currently looking at moving my site to a Digital Ocean droplet for about $8 a month, but if I could figure out a way to stay on azure i would.
I use Azure Static Web App since my site is just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Those can be free, but for production they recommend that you upgrade to the premium plan at $9/month.
Is table storage good for a enterprise application? Much cheaper than azure SQL and cosmos db
It is good for certain situations. It is a tool. Just note that it won't be good for all situations (or even most situations). Enterprise databases offer more than just additional expense - they offer data protections that are incredibly important to your business. Your data is your business. Without it, your business fails. So, don't create a cheap system that doesn't protect your data well enough.
I actually found that cosmos db is not free. The way I know that is there is once where I had a cosmos db database and for a while it was free. However, eventually I noticed an unusual charge on my credit card and I had a feeling it had to do with azure. So I checked and found out that for a few months, I actually got charged for cosmos db and no activity was on the database either. That forced me to delete the cosmos db.
Was it multi regional? Also every query you run incurrs RUs which add to cost
It absolutely is free. However, it has limits. If you exceed those limits, you pay for the overage: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/free-tier
@@IAmTimCorey The sad thing is I never knew what part was exceeded that caused it not to be free anymore. I think I may had 2 databases. Some of the storage was somewhat large. I for sure as far as I know only had a single region. I wish there was a way to know enough to guarantee it would always be free.
It tells you what every call "costs" in terms of RU so you can definitely ensure you stay at or below the free tier, and they tell you how much storage you are using. You just need to understand how to track them in order to use it for free.
Can you, please, make a video on how to learn MAUI ?
Thanks for the suggestion. Please add it to the list on the suggestion site so others can vote on it as well: suggestions.iamtimcorey.com/
Great video
Thank you!
The elements of the course are interesting and the price for having a database in development around 5$ per month is reasonable. However, if I want to add user authentication to my learning, according to "TimCo Retail Management Course on UA-cam", I have to add another $5 per month for this service. Is there a cheaper solution than $5 per month for this service?
OK, the reason it is an additional $5/month is because I separate the authentication database from the application data database. So two databases, each at $5/month. If you used Azure Active Directory B2C instead, authentication would be free for the first 50,000 active users/month.
Bloody Hell. May be the first to comment, Last to leave.
I hope you enjoyed it.
@@IAmTimCorey Always.