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Microsoft Cloud Solutions
Business Applications
Fuel business growth by bringing together enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and cloud services.
Microsoft Power Apps
Drive innovation and solve business challenges by empowering everyone in your organization to quickly build professional-grade, low-code apps.
Azure Basics
Azure gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your preferred tools and frameworks.
Azure resource groups
Learn about management scopes and resource groups in Azure
Azure portal walk-through
Take a tour of Azure Portal features, services and customization options
Managing your resources
Use resource groups to organize your resources, protect them, and enforce standards
Introduction to Azure from AWS
Understand key similarities and differences between Azure and AWS
Azure high-level architecture
Explore the physical architecture of Azure, how redundancy is provided, and its service guarantees
Azure Services to AWS mapping
Map between Azure services and their AWS equivalents
Enterprise readiness
95% of Fortune 500 companies trust their business on Azure. Here are some resources to help you deliver your solutions to the world’s top enterprise customers:
Performance
Scale and elasticity fundamentals
Carefully architecting, designing, developing, and monitoring applications for scalability and elasticity is essential for your success. We recommend the following best practices for building scalable and elastic applications that dynamically handle loads and optimize deployments.
Security and privacy
If you’re targeting enterprise customers, security and privacy are critical considerations. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. Microsoft’s Cloud platforms are ready for you to start building with tools, guidance, and best practices for security and privacy, as well as tools to help you attain the certifications you need for your application.
Monitoring, instrumentation and debugging
Microsoft Azure offers integrated monitoring and instrumentation capabilities to help you understand how your application runs. The following resources provide tools and guidance for monitoring infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.
Marketplace readiness
You can grow your business by partnering with Microsoft through the Azure Marketplace. Here are some helpful resources to help you publish and sell your application on Azure Marketplace.
Grow your knowledge
Here is a list of free resources to help you stay up to date.
- Azure Documentation - Your starting point to learn how to build and manage powerful applications using Microsoft Azure cloud services.
- Microsoft Learn - Interactive learning modules.
- Microsoft for Startups Community - For dynamic business and technical conversations and additional learning resources to help your startup scale.
- Online free courses in Pluralsight - Free skill assessments, over 200+ courses, 40+ Skill IQs and 8 Role IQs.
- Channel 9 Azure Fridays - Demos and shared insights on Azure services presented by the engineers that built them.
- Azure Online Webinars - Expert-level sessions on cloud patterns and best practices.
Stay updated with new services, service health and more with the links below:
- Azure Updates - Receive product announcements and updates on Azure.
- Azure Service Health - Get timely notifications about ongoing service issues, planned maintenance, and health advisories.
- Azure Blog -Stay up to date with news from people who work on Azure.
Support
If you have a question or encounter an issue, either technical, business or regarding the Microsoft for Startups program, we can help. You can find a summary of all support options and how you can get in touch with us here.
Talks and Webinars
Get technical and business advice from Microsoft subject matter experts.
Webinars
Join us for exciting sessions led by Microsoft's technical experts to learn through technical deep dives, demos, and live Q&A.
Talks
Hear from startups in ecosystems around the world who are finding success partnering with Microsoft.