3. Getting started with azure

Today i am going to create an account in azure, explore regions and read about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Creating an account

We can go this link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account and click on try for free if you just want to try and learn azure, the other option is pay as you go but i don't recommend that for someone who is just starting to learn azure.

After clicking on try for free, we have to fill up our personal details

After logging in, we get to the homepage

Now that we have created the account lets move on to the next topic regions.

Why are the data centers(availability zones) spread across different regions?

latency and downtime. We want minimum latency and downtime.

IaaS,PaaS,SaaS

Azure provides many different services , it is upto the user how they want to use it, as a Infrastructure as a Service model**(Example- vm, networking , stoarage and thden use third party apps inside them.)** or Product as a Service model**(Example- mysql database , configure it yourself)** or Software as a service model**(Example- outlook email service, just use a software)**

The content of this blog are notes of the video linked below

https://youtu.be/e99QsTsJPJs?si=n2-e2Zxu4vlS3NbT