Microsoft Azure Free Training Resources

If you are a Windows administrator and haven't upgraded your skill on Public cloud , specially Microsoft Azure cloud then you are missing big employment opportunities. Public cloud adoption is speeding up month by month and their is shortfall of skilled people on Public Cloud. read these reports of shortage people with cloud skills :

http://www.cio.com/article/3093453/cloud-computing/businesses-struggle-to-hire-workers-with-cloud-skills.html

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/growing-need-for-cloud-skills-at-global-2000-enterprises-driving-worldwide-developer-shortage-according-to-cloud-foundry-report/

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/tackling-the-cloud-skills-shortage-027750.php

Microsoft Azure has made a tremendous progress in last 2-3 years and giving a tough competition to the AWS Public Cloud for first place. More and more organizations are migrating of Microsoft Office 365 from traditional on-premise Exchange and SharePoint environments. Azure platform seamlessly integrate with Office 365 - which is another reason organizations are choosing Azure for there workloads. 

So without thinking further please upgrade your skills and grab great employment opportunities waiting for you.

These are some resources I came across for Microsoft Azure Free Training:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: https://mva.microsoft.com/product-training/microsoft-azure

Microsoft Azure Developer Program Benefits - Free 300 USD Credit

Today I am sharing a great news for you people who want to learn and play around with Microsoft “Azure" Public Cloud offering . Microsoft is giving a 300$ (25 $ per month for one year) credit on Azure platform to consume if you sign up and join Visual Studio Dev Essentials. You can use your credit on popular Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Web Apps, Cloud Services, Mobile Services, Storage, SQL Database, Content Delivery Network, HDInsight and Media Services.

Some of the common uses cases for you are:
 -
Provision and use one S0 Standard Azure SQL Database
 -  Run a D2 Windows VM for ~ 90 hours
 -  Analyze big data for 24 hours with an A3 Hadoop Insight Cluster
 -  Run five Linux D11 virtual machines for 24 hours
To now more and signup for this offer you can open this URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/member-offers/vs-dev-essentials/