Stay ahead of the curve in the fast-paced world of tech. This post features the latest Microsoft Learn resources to help you skill up on AI, cloud migration, app development, data analysis, performance, and security on Azure.

Level up your skills and unlock exciting career opportunities with content highlights covering multiple Azure services. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, our resources can help fuel your learning journey.

Through Plans on Microsoft Learn, you can fast-track your AI skill-building goals. The curated content, combined with milestones and automated nudges, helps keep you focused and motivated.

Develop cutting-edge AI applications for real-world impact

From healthcare to finance, AI-powered intelligent apps are transforming how we work and live, making processes more efficient, personalized, and innovative.

• Modernize apps for AI readiness with Azure app platform and data solutions. Gain practical skills to create cloud-native AI applications on Azure, with topics covering app design, database development, and AI service integration. Design and deploy cloud-native AI apps with robust back-end databases, while making the most of Azure AI services to enhance your applications.
• Build AI apps with Azure services and best practices. Unlock the full potential of Azure by gaining essential skills in cost management, security, and migration. Dive into various app development options and confidently build resilient data layers with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. Make smart decisions deploying applications on Azure, from managed Kubernetes to fully managed platforms, helping to ensure flexibility and scalability.

Experience the future of AI with Azure

AI skills are in high demand and acquiring them can open doors to exciting career opportunities where you can contribute to groundbreaking innovations shaping our future.

• Skill up on generative AI model selection, evaluation, and multimodal integration with Azure AI Studio. Learn to select and apply the best generative AI models by using Azure AI Studio, gaining skills in benchmarking, multimodal model application, and performance evaluation. Make data-driven decisions, enhance customer satisfaction with advanced AI capabilities, and continuously improve your generative AI solutions for optimal performance and safety.
• Implementing data integration and model grounding with Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Fabric. Create advanced AI solutions by grounding models in data, integrating various sources, and learning techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning techniques to customize models. Learn to customize models for your specific domain, enhancing your ability to develop sophisticated AI applications by using Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Fabric.
• Evolve with generative AI: Operationalize your Azure gen AI solutions with fine-tuning and prompt flow. Take control of your generative AI solutions by building proficiency with prompt flows, collaborating efficiently, and integrating fine-tuned models. Develop the skills to create, customize, and evolve advanced AI models by using Azure AI services in your preferred environment, allowing for a code-first approach that can keep you ahead of the curve.

Maximize developer productivity and get results

By streamlining workflows and automating tasks, developers can focus on innovation and deliver products faster — improving productivity and driving overall business success.

• Accelerate app development by using GitHub Copilot. Learn to boost your coding efficiency and accuracy by using GitHub Copilot, and gain an understanding of techniques for code interpretation, documentation, and feature development. Comprehend complex codebases, efficiently author new features, and accelerate your refactoring, debugging, and testing processes.
• Build, test, and deploy applications securely with GitHub and Microsoft Azure. Discover secure app development by building, testing, and deploying with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Azure Pipelines. Automate workflows, manage containerized apps, identify vulnerabilities, and apply best practices, as you configure services and create secure, robust applications with ease.
• Get Skilled on GitHub Advanced Security. In this episode of the Azure Essentials Show, we discuss GitHub Advanced Security, and guest Patrick Vuong explains how DevSecOps and AI features enhance application security without hindering productivity.

Modernize your IT infrastructure for the digital age

Are your outdated systems hindering growth, increasing costs, and compromising security? By embracing a move to Azure, you can streamline operations, improve efficiency, and unlock new opportunities for innovation.

• Migrate and secure Windows Server workloads on Azure. Discover the process of migrating on-premises Windows Server workloads to Azure, including VMware resources, and learn to use Azure Arc for hybrid environments. Gain the essential skills for Azure administrators, including monitoring, backup, identity management, and resource governance, enabling you to efficiently manage and optimize your cloud infrastructure.
• Migrate and modernize with Azure cloud-scale databases to enable AI. Gain essential skills for database modernization, including migrating SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL and implementing advanced security features. Learn how to collect performance metrics, automate database tasks, implement disaster recovery options, and develop cloud-native applications with Azure SQL Database, enhancing your ability to manage and optimize database systems.

Unlock the full potential of SAP on Azure

Don't let legacy systems hold your business back. Modernize your environment on Azure to drive innovation, improve agility, and gain a competitive edge.

• Migrate SAP on Azure for business transformation with VMs and RISE with SAP. Explore the infrastructure needs for successful SAP workload migration and learn to deploy SAP HANA workloads on Azure Virtual Machines, including memory-intensive Mv3 Virtual Machines. Connect SAP workloads to Azure resources, plan on-premises migrations, and help ensure business continuity for SAP solutions on Azure, accelerating your business transformation.
• Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate and Modernize SAP on the Microsoft Cloud. Gain the skills to migrate SAP to Azure and unlock its benefits. Learn how to reduce costs, improve performance, enhance security, and foster collaboration with AI-powered insights.
• Explore Azure networking for SAP RISE. Discover how to connect your Azure networks to your RISE with SAP architecture. Understand the responsibilities of different teams, and explore various connection methods by using Azure VPN peering, virtual network to virtual network, on-premises networks, and the internet.

Support data-driven decision-making for competitive advantage

The power of data is transforming how decisions shape success. Maintain your edge by turning raw data into actionable insights and driving smarter strategies.

• Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric. Find out how to ingest, transform, and store data by using Microsoft Fabric lakehouses and data warehouses. In this Plan, learn to expose data with Power BI semantic models, enabling you to handle large-scale data engineering workloads with tools like Spark and Azure Databricks.
• Run data analytics solutions with Azure Databricks. Get all the details on working with Azure Databricks to run large-scale data engineering workloads by using Apache Spark clusters, and learn to implement advanced AI solutions, including language models and RAG. In this Plan, find out how to build efficient data pipelines with Delta Live Tables, implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows, and develop comprehensive data analytics solutions, enhancing your ability to process and analyze data in the cloud.

Become an Azure expert and drive innovation

Help ensure that your Azure environment is always running at peak performance. Enhance cloud reliability, security, and performance to drive business success.

• Elevate reliability, security, and ongoing performance of Azure and AI projects. Find out how to improve the resiliency, security, and performance of your cloud architecture and workloads, enabling you to effectively manage AI and cloud investments. Gear up with proven frameworks, tools, and best practices to optimize workload performance, enhance reliability, strengthen security, and control cloud costs, ultimately helping to maximize the business value of your cloud environment.

Get ready to learn even more at Microsoft Ignite

You’ve got the expertise—are you ready for the next big thing? Microsoft Ignite offers a premier opportunity to explore the latest innovations across Microsoft technology, tools, and solutions. Access interactive learning, expert-led sessions, and product deep dives on topics like Azure, AI, and security. Our annual event provides a platform for networking, skill-building, and discovering new ways to drive business success. We look forward to you joining us online, November 19–21, 2024, or, if you’ve already registered, in person in Chicago, November 18–22, 2024.