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Interested in a free course on Azure Optimization?

Build the skills you need to create new opportunities and accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn. Join us at Azure Optimization training day to see how to operate your cloud architecture and workloads more efficiently. You’ll learn how to modernize your infrastructure to optimize costs and enhance efficiency, reliability, and security.

You’ll also learn to implement security controls, prepare cloud environments and Azure landing zones, and remediate deployed workloads. Get guidance, resources, tools, and best practices to develop an optimization mindset to drive efficiencies across your organization.

Who should attend:

• Technology directors
• Product directors and managers
• IT decision makers
• IT professionals
• Developers

Technical level:

• This is an intermediate-level course. Attendees should be able to credibly discuss, offer perspective, and integrate technology from minimal practical experience.

During this training, you will be able to:

• Understand how to apply cloud optimization best practices, frameworks, and core resources to your organization.
• Learn how to use the FinOps Framework, the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Discover how to maximize business value and innovation by improving cloud security, workload migration, and modernization efforts.

Here’s what you can expect:

Part 1:

1. Introduction
2. Azure optimization and FinOps as a mindset overview with demos of Microsoft Cost Management and a FinOps review
3. Break: 10 minutes
4. Design for optimization: Balancing cost and growth within your cloud platform
5. Break: 10 minutes
6. Demo: Prepare your cloud environments for ongoing optimization
7. Closing question and answer

Part 2:

1. Introduction
2. Continuous improvement: Optimize the architecture of your workloads
3. Break: 10 minutes
4. Continuous improvement: Optimize your existing workloads
5. Break: 10 minutes
6. Demo: Review and remediate a workload deployed in production
7. Closing question and answer

Space is limited, so reserve your spot now!

Date/Time:

• February 22, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 3:30 PM | (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
• February 23, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 2:45 PM | (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Registration:

• Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day:
  Optimization
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/426975/157-GQE-382?wt.mc_id=eventscatalog