New Azure Essentials L200 guidance and labs
We continue to develop more technical content to help partners accelerate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of their customers' AI and cloud investments. Take a look at the latest materials now available on the Partner Marketing Center: L200 Technical Guidance for Secure Migration: Use this asset to deliver technical guidance and best practices on implementing Azure Essentials guidance for the Migrate and Secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate solution play. Structured as a three-stage process, it includes how-to guidance, best practices and resources across Cloud Adoption Framework, Well-Architected Framework, Azure Architecture Center, Skilling, FinOps and Pricing along with other Migrate and Secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate Solution Play specific elements L200 Technical Guidance for Innovate with Azure AI Platform: Use this asset to deliver technical guidance and best practices on implementing Azure Essentials guidance for the Innovate with Azure AI Platform solution play. Structured as a three-stage process, it includes how-to guidance, best practices and resources across Cloud Adoption Framework for AI Adoption, Data Collocation, Platform Landing Zone, Skilling, FinOps and Pricing along with other Innovate with Azure AI Platform specific elements Click through lab: Assess and remediate an existing application for reliability Discover all the partner-ready Azure Essentials materials available on https://aka.ms/AzureEssentialsPL'Why Resiliency Matters' - Webinar Registrations now open
Our recent analysis indicates that 74% of customer outages could have been prevented by following reliability guidance in the Well-Architected Framework (WAF)*. Ignoring WAF can lead to more frequent outages, diminished CSAT, and risk to ACR. No matter the workload, customers need help protecting service continuity. Help your customers reduce risk with a Proactive Resilience engagement by designing resilient cloud workloads, or remediating existing critical workloads. In this webinar, Azure Advanced Specialized partners can learn how to deliver Proactive Resilience engagements to provide their customers actionable guidance, recommendations for reliability and uptime; and improved confidence and understanding of Azure. This webinar is an abridged version of our Proactive Resiliency Workshop series, designed for Sales BDMs and non-technical staff. We have three webinar options available, select the time that best suits your schedule: EMEA Timezone: Monday Oct 21 4:00-5:00PM London Time UTC+0 Asia Timezone: Tuesday Oct 22 10:30-11:30AM Singapore Time UTC+8 Americas Timezone: Wednesday Oct 23 1:00-2:00PM PDT UTC+10 AMD is proud to sponsor our webinar series. Microsoft and AMD’s Long-Term Partnership stretches to their commitment to technical education and innovation. Their sponsorship of this workshop is a testament to their commitment to the technology community and their belief in the importance of continued learning and development. If you are interested in learning more about how AMD can support your customers’ proactive resiliency efforts, please visit AMD and Azure | Microsoft AzureAzure Essentials training - Proactive Resiliency and Secure Migration
Partners can register for newly scheduled training sessions for Azure Essentials today. These multi-day workshops will be delivered virtually live across 3 timezones. Check out the agendas for Proactive Resiliency and Secure Migration below. Proactive Resiliency The "Azure Essentials: Proactive Resiliency" workshop is designed to equip Partner resources and Workload owners with the knowledge and tools to enhance the reliability of their workloads for cloud and AI investments. This workshop introduces proactive resiliency, emphasizing the importance of preparing for inevitable outages to keep critical workloads reliable. Participants will learn about the value proposition of conducting proactive resiliency engagements, engagement details, and next steps. Key topics include: The importance of reliability in cloud computing and common problems that can lead to significant financial losses. The benefits of multi-zonal and multi-regional implementations and resiliency optimization engagements. The shared responsibility between customers and Microsoft Partners in building reliable solutions. The proactive resilience approach to reduce customer risk and enhance trust in Microsoft and it’s Partners. Practical steps to design and assess workloads for resiliency. Participants will also gain insights into Azure's resiliency options, disaster recovery concepts, and the importance of multi-zonal deployment of services. The workshop will provide the latest Azure Essentials best practices, guidance, and tools to support customers’ cloud journey. Earn a digital badge Attendees who participate in the live sessions of this workshop will earn a digital badge. These badges, which serve as a testament to your engagement and learning, can be conveniently accessed and shared through the Credly digital platform. Please note that accessing on-demand content does not meet the criteria for earning a badge. April 22-23, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | APAC (IST) April 23-24, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | EMEA (BST) & AMER (PDT) Go to registration → Partner Meetup for Azure - Special Preview of Proactive Resiliency On March 13th, we will present a special preview of the Proactive Resiliency training on the weekly Partner Meetup for Azure call. Register for the call scheduled 8AM PST at Partner Meetup for Microsoft Azure. Secure Migration The Partner Readiness Workshop on Secure Migrations to Azure is a crucial opportunity for partners to enhance their understanding and capabilities in securely migrating workloads to Azure. This 2-day workshop is designed to help partners stay ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud migrations, ensuring they can effectively manage and protect their clients' data and infrastructure during this process. Participants will gain valuable insights into best practices and advanced strategies for secure migrations on Azure, enabling them to deliver superior migration solutions to their customers. The outcomes of this workshop include improved proficiency in establishing a secure foundation for migration, enhanced security during the migration process, and a comprehensive understanding of post-migration security and governance. Participants will gain valuable skills in setting up a secure cloud environment, protecting workloads during migration, and maintaining robust security measures and governance practices. About the Event This workshop spans two days and includes comprehensive content across various architecture and technical aspects of secure migrations on Azure, including: Azure Landing Zone design Implementing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Deploying and implementing Microsoft Sentinel This virtual workshop provides the latest Azure Essentials best practices, guidance, and tools to support customers’ cloud journey. This includes practical scenarios in which participants can apply their knowledge and acquire hands-on experience. By the end of this workshop, partners will be equipped to ensure a smooth and secure migration process, maintain business continuity, meet compliance standards, and build customer trust. Earn a digital badge Attendees who participate in the live sessions of this workshop will earn a digital badge. These badges, which serve as a testament to your engagement and learning, can be conveniently accessed and shared through the Credly digital platform. Please note that accessing on-demand content does not meet the criteria for earning a badge. April 1-2, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | APAC (IST) April 2-3, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | EMEA (BST) & AMER (PDT) May 6-7, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | APAC (IST) May 7-8, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | EMEA (BST) & AMER (PDT) Go to registration →Welcome to the Azure Essentials for Partners community!
We're excited to launch a new community to enable partners to help customers elevate reliability, security, and ongoing performance of their cloud and AI investments through Azure Essentials. Here we will be providing you with updates on new assets, tooling and partner training related to Azure Essentials. Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate. Azure Essentials is the newest addition to the Azure portfolio. It is not an offer by itself. Rather, it underpins Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate. Azure Essentials provides Microsoft best practices, product experiences, reference architectures and an array of resources into a single destination to help partners elevate security, reliability, and ongoing performance for cloud and AI workloads of their customers. For partners, this will be your go-to hub to access assets, tooling and partner training to deliver your own differentiated solutions on core scenarios across the Microsoft Azure solution plays as well as other important topics like resilience and security. All partner types can benefit from the self-serve Azure Essentials guidance, however, SIs with infra/DB specialization are likely most suited for the current proactive resiliency scenario. Information for partners is available on the Azure Essentials Partner page on the Microsoft partner website. Stay tuned here in the community for the latest announcements and updates on Azure Essentials!Register for Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI Adoption (Feb 11-12)
Register and join us for an exciting event for developers and cloud architects hosted right here on the Tech Community! We have a great line-up of sessions on February 11-12, 2025 featuring demos from Microsoft and AMD experts. Our two-day agenda will cover: Essential resources to accelerate your next Azure and AI project or enhance your existing deployments In-depth technical guidance from Microsoft experts to enhance your Azure workloads AMD products and solutions to advance cloud adoption Check out the schedule and sign up for a VIP experience today: Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI - February 11-12, 2025Azure Essentials training - AI Ready and Proactive Security
Partners can register for newly scheduled training sessions for Azure Essentials today. These multi-day workshops will be delivered virtually live across 3 timezones. Check out the agendas for AI Ready and Proactive Security below. AI Ready Anyone can build an AI workload, but is it well-architected and can it be managed and governed in a consistent manner? This 2-day workshop will help partners deploy environments and design workloads using best practices developed and codified by Microsoft’s cloud solution architects. It will incorporate landing zone architectures that support baseline reference architectures for GenAI chatbots found in the Azure Architecture Center. The solutions will incorporate policy related to security, reliability and compliance, while adhering to the design principles and tradeoffs found in the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Once these policies have been configured and declared within the Azure Landing Zone, the workshop will leverage an accelerator to simplify the deployment of Azure AI Foundry. The end of day one will take learners through an exercise of setting up a GenAIOps process and relevant team roles. The second day will switch gears towards individual workloads with an architecture and design session of a well-architected AI workload. The hands-on lab will take the learners through an assessment of a sample AI workload design, illustrating the key concepts and considerations specific to AI workloads. The session will then delve into building a PoC and getting it ready to deploy into production with tools, such as Content Safety, Chaos Studio and AI Foundry. Day two will round out with a discussion about ways to evolve, continuously improve, and monitor the workload once it’s in production. This two-day online workshop is a crucial opportunity for partners to enhance their understanding and capabilities building environments and designing/operating AI workloads. Earn a digital badge Attendees who participate in the live sessions of this workshop will earn a digital badge. These badges, which serve as a testament to your engagement and learning, can be conveniently accessed and shared through the Credly digital platform. Please note that accessing on-demand content does not meet the criteria for earning a badge. May 27-28, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | APAC (IST) May 28-29, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | EMEA (BST) & AMER (PDT) Go to registration → Proactive Security The L300 Partner Readiness Session on Security on Azure is a crucial opportunity for partners to enhance their understanding and capabilities in securing Azure environments. This session is designed to help partners stay ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud security, ensuring they can effectively protect their clients' data and infrastructure. Participants will gain valuable insights into best practices and advanced security strategies on Azure, which will enable them to deliver superior security solutions to their customers. The outcomes of this session include improved proficiency in leveraging Azure security services and capabilities, enhanced ability to respond to security threats, and a deeper understanding of modern security operations. The session spans 6-8 hours and includes comprehensive content across various architecture and technical aspects of properly enabling security on Azure, including: Assessing security in an Azure environment and identifying vulnerabilities Designing Azure Landing Zone for enhanced security, at the environment and application layers Understanding Modern SecOps and other essential security frameworks Implementing security protocols with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Earn a digital badge Attendees who participate in the live sessions of this workshop will earn a digital badge. These badges, which serve as a testament to your engagement and learning, can be conveniently accessed and shared through the Credly digital platform. Please note that accessing on-demand content does not meet the criteria for earning a badge. May 27-28, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | APAC (IST) May 28-29, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | EMEA (BST) & AMER (PDT) Go to registration →Azure Essentials Cost Efficiency Series
We have a new Cloud Migration for Financial Leaders eBook as the latest addition to our Azure Essentials Cost Efficiency Series: https://aka.ms/ebook/cloud-migration More about the Cost Efficiency Series This is the fourth eBook in our series, designed to help organizations enhance cost efficiency and navigate their cloud journey. Each eBook delivers actionable insights, expert guidance, and highlights Microsoft solutions that empower organizations to build confidence, accelerate adoption, and maximize investments. Here are the other three eBooks in this series: Topic: AI Adoption Title: A Comprehensive Guide to Achieving Success on Azure AI https://aka.ms/ebook/ai-adoption -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: FinOps Title: A Guide to Maximizing Cloud Business Value Through FinOps https://aka.ms/ebook/finops ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Cloud Sustainability Title: A Guide to Effectively Managing ESG Goals https://aka.ms/ebook/managing-ESG-goals Would love to hear your thoughts on our latest content!April 22 Tech Accelerator: Azure Security and AI Adoption
Tech Accelerator: Azure security and AI adoption | Microsoft Community Hub On April 22, 2025 Microsoft and AMD will be hosting an online event focused on Azure Security and Adoption. This event is part of Azure Essentials, targeting developers and cloud architects with L200-300 content. Experts will be on-hand to moderate live Q&A, speakers include Uli Hoffmann, Joey Snow and Richard Diver. Topics covered will include: Security for Migration and AI projects Azure platform security How Microsoft datacenters are secure by design Microsoft Cloud for Defender's role in safeguarding AI applications. The event will be hosted on the Tech Community as a live event. We hope to see you there!
