I’ve collected a few useful resources and would like to share them with you. If you are into Azure Architecture these most probably will be quite useful.
Azure Architecture Center – Start Here
Azure Application Architecture Guide – This guide presents a structured approach for designing applications on Azure that are scalable, resilient, and highly available. It is based on proven practices that we have learned from customer engagements.
Azure Reference Architectures – Our reference architectures are arranged by scenario. Each architecture includes recommended practices, along with considerations for scalability, availability, manageability, and security. Most also include a deployable solution or reference implementation.
Azure Quickstart Templates – Deploy Azure resources through the Azure Resource Manager with community contributed templates to get more done. Deploy, learn, fork and contribute back.
Cloud Design Patterns – These design patterns are useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud.
Each pattern describes the problem that the pattern addresses, considerations for applying the pattern, and an example based on Microsoft Azure. Most of the patterns include code samples or snippets that show how to implement the pattern on Azure. However, most of the patterns are relevant to any distributed system, whether hosted on Azure or on other cloud platforms.
Microsoft patterns & practices – We discover, collect, and encourage practices that bring joy to engineering software.
Introducing the Azure portal “how to” video series – A new video weekly series highlights specific aspects of the Azure portal so you can be more efficient and productive while deploying your cloud workloads from the portal.
Azure Resource Explorer – Azure Resource Explorer is a new web site where you can easily discover the Azure Resource Management APIs, get API documentation, make actual API calls directly in your own subscriptions
Microsoft Cloud Workshops: Free Microsoft Azure Hands-on Lab Guides – The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft’s own Cloud Solution Architects, as well as Microsoft Partners all over the world, how to use Microsoft Azure services. Currently there are a total of 36 Microsoft Cloud Workshops that cover a wide range of enterprise scenarios within Azure. These include Interest of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Cost Optimization, Cloud Migration, Microservices, Serverless, and much more!