Summary

This chapter, Chapter 3, Core Azure Architectural Components, included complete coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area Describe Cloud Concepts.

We described the physical and logical core architectural components of the Azure cloud computing platforms. From the physical perspective, we looked at the data centers that host the cloud computing resources, the global networks connecting them and connecting users to their resources, the global regions that provide the cloud platform resources, and the availability of these resources.

From the logical component perspective, we looked at all aspects of resource management. Starting with Azure subscriptions, which act as both a mechanism and a boundary for billing and access management, we also covered management groups. Next, we covered ARM and resource groups, which form the basis for access management and governance, the concepts of RBAC, Azure Policy, how they differ, and the scenarios in which to use each...