As things start to wind down for the end of the year and we take a break from work to be with family and friends, you might start to think about resolutions for 2020. If one of your resolutions is to learn Azure then now is the best time to do so.
Here are some community resources to help you get started:
- Create a free Azure account: You can sign up with a Microsoft or GitHub account and get access to 12 months of popular free services, a 30-day Azure free trial with $200 to spend during that period and over 25 services that are free forever.
- Stay current with the Azure Application Developer and Languages page: This is a single, unified destination for developers and architects that covers Azure application development. The content is updated monthly.
- Free Developer’s Guide to Azure eBook: a free eBook that includes all the updates from Microsoft’s first-party conferences (Build, Ignite), along with new services and features announced since then.
- Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, a free e-book to build your cloud computing skills quickly and efficiently.
- Azure Tips and Tricks :Azure Tips and Tricks helps developers learn something new within a couple of minutes.
- Azure.Source Newsletter where you can catch up on Azure in one post
- Microsoft.Source Newsletter where you can get the latest articles, documentation, and events from the developer community
- Azure weekly, a great way to keep up to date with what’s new each and every week
- Microsoft Learn – Azure fundamentals course. If you’re interested in the cloud, but aren’t quite sure what it can do for you? This path is the place to start.
- Azure documentation is the most comprehensive and current resource you’ll find for all of our Azure services.
Enjoy and happy learning for 2020!
The Flying Maverick 