Introduction

You've heard buzzwords about the cloud — scale, elasticity, microservices. The cloud helps power your everyday life, and it's often present in ways you don't even realize. In this new connected world, we believe technology creates opportunity.

In this course, you will:

• Learn what Microsoft Azure is and how it relates to cloud computing
• Use Azure Cloud Shell to launch a Windows or Linux virtual machine
• Configure your virtual machine to run a basic web server
• Scale up your server to give you more compute power