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Steve Miles
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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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Azure resources

In the previous chapter, we covered resource groups and learned that they are a logical grouping of Azure resources; but what is a resource in Azure?

An Azure resource is an Azure entity that can be managed; these resources are the building block components combined to create services, and it is these services we use to provide solutions.

These services and resources can be broken down into more manageable identities and categories, almost like a service catalog of Azure services you can browse through and select to build your solution. There are approximately 200 unique services within the Azure services catalog that can be used to create solutions, which can be made up of several thousand individual resources.

To build a solution, we know we need some compute resources, networking services, storage services, data services, management services, security and identity services, and so on. You can then browse through the categories and view all the options available...

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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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