General – Page 3 – Cloud Marathoner's Journey

The #CloudMarathoner community is growing strong

Hello Cloud Marathoner friends,

We – the #cloudmarathoner community started this journey approximately three years ago with few posts and followers. The idea was to help everyone learn about the #cloudcomputing and #free training resources to help #upskill and launch your #cloud career.

The #CloudMarathoner followers on @LinkedIn

We ARE GROWING

Based on your feedback and support our community has grown to 920+ strong members and we are now empowered to reach more people than before.

Thus, I would like to say “HUGE THANK YOU!” to everyone who has followed or #shared the #CloudMarathoner posts and announcements.

Again, this is the beginning of something “GREAT” that we need to carry on by spreading the goodness and power of #knowledge that empowers people.

CONCLUSION

Thank you for stopping by and checking the announcement.
Please, check our architecture and cloud infrastructure as code videos in the #CloudMarathone YouTube channel.

Our blog is climbing up on the ranking of TOP 100 Azure Best Blogs

Hello Cloud Marathoner!

Thank you for stopping by to read about this exciting development!
Due to your continued interest and ongoing contributions to our blog, we are now placed as 16th best Azure blog.

Below is the screenshot from the Blog FeedSpot:

**O u r b l o g ‘s standing in 100 Azure Best Blogs site**

what are the Neighbouring blogs?

Currently, we have the following blogs as our upper and lower neighbors in the Top 100 Best Microsoft Azure Blogs.

The upper neighbor is an Azure Podcast and we have Azure Greg as the next neighbor. Both of them, the blog and podcast are good sources of information created free of charge for the #community by individual members.

What is next?

Well, please be on a lookout to find more Microsoft announcements, training opportunities and information about Cloud events in my upcoming posts. Namely, we will cover LATAM 2022 , Infrastructure as code updates in Azure, Azure Bicep, Security and Microsoft Ignite in the next 3 months.

Hope to hear back from you soon.
And THANK YOU for continued interest in the #CloudMarathoner blog posts!

Welcoming the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

Hello friends!

Hope you all had a chance to attend the Microsoft Inspire 2022, Day – 1 today!

It started with a number of announcements from Satya Nadella – the CEO and executive chairman of Microsoft. There are a number of new announcements for partner organizations.

Day 1 Notes

The general theme of event was around innovation and power of Microsoft Azure that empowers organizations and communities to do more with less using Microsoft Azure echo system products with partner solutions.

It was announced that Microsoft has more than 400,000 partners who employ more than 22 million people around the world. Partner programs reflect a commitment to shared success. And the theme of event continued to be “Together with our partners, we can achieve more.”

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Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

One of the notable announcements of the vent is “Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty”. It is a new solution that will enable public sector customers to build and digitally transform workloads in the Microsoft Cloud while meeting their compliance, security and policy requirements.

It arrives with the following differentiator features:
✔️ Data residency
✔️ Sovereign controls
✔️ Sovereign Landing Zone
✔️ Governance and transparency
✔️ Expertise

Check the detailed and official blog post on Microsoft’s blog 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFZU4acz.

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Stay tuned for more Azure, Automation & Security-related posts.

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Microsoft Inspire 2022

Hello Cloud Marathoners,

It is summertime and naturally we all want to enjoy it, right?
Microsoft is scheduled to hold its annual signature event for partners – called Microsoft Inspire in few weeks.

What is Microsoft Inspire?

It is a conference held annually by Microsoft Corporation for its partner organizations and community around the globe. At Microsoft Inspire, partners learn about the Microsoft’s technology announcements for the upcoming year and experience the latest product innovations while learning new skills and techniques.

Usually, it starts with a keynote from Satya Nadella – a Microsoft CEO and Board Director, followed by other Microsoft executives, featured speakers, business-track specific offerings, and hundreds of sessions.

How to Register?

This year, the Microsoft Inspire will be a virtual event and #free.
Thank you, Microsoft, for opening this event for every organization and people!

Please use the link below to register and don’t forget to pick/book your sessions from Schedule once your registration is completed.

📌 Register for #FREE 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6Ksnd6T
📅 July 19-20, 2022

Hope you will all join and enjoy this event!

Cloud Skills Challenge is back with Microsoft Build 2022 👍

Hello Cloud Marathoners,

I have good news for all of you!
Now, you could you earn a #free #examvoucher 💰 (worth 💲165 or £ 113) by completing the #cloudskillschallenge at Microsoft Build 2022. Yay!

Microsoft Build 2022 Cloud Skills Challenge

What is the cloud skill challenges?

Well, each of these learning challenges are set of Microsoft Learn modules. You could read and complete them on your own phase within a month.

📌 Check out these 8 #cloudskills challenges and sign-up to participate 👉 https://lnkd.in/gByWJNJR

You have a selection choice to pick the right challenge for YOU & earn #free #examvoucher. Available challenges are listed below:

✔️ Microsoft 365: Building Applications and Solutions Challenge
✔️ Azure Developer Challenge
✔️ IoT Developer Challenge
✔️ Azure Cosmos DB Developer Challenge
✔️ Power Platform: Functional Consultant Challenge
✔️ Power Platform: App Maker Challenge
✔️ Microsoft Security: Who Hacked? Challenge
✔️ Data and AI: Who Hacked? Challenge

What happens when I complete a challenge?

You will be notified by email and become eligible to redeem one exam voucher. Exam voucher is an official Microsoft exam payment code (💲165 or £ 113 value) you earn for #free by completing the cloud skills challenge on-time.

📌 Check out the Official Terms and Conditions 👉 https://lnkd.in/gQvy-NWn

You can redeem an #examvoucher for an eligible exam listed below:
🌟 AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
🌟 AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
🌟 AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer
🌟 AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
🌟 DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud – Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
🌟 MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions
🌟 PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker
🌟 PL-200: Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant
🌟 PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
🌟 SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
🌟 SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

Summary

I wish you all GOOD LUCK in this challenge 🤞

Please, don’t forget to tag me on LinkedIn or Twitter once your challenge is completed or you pass the exam!

This might be a unique opportunity to earn the first PRO Microsoft #azurecertification for many people in the #cloudcommunity.
Please 🙌 share this with your #network too.

Hope to hear from all of you soon 😊 🤗

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Microsoft Build 2022 is this week

Hello friends,

Hope you are all pumped up and excited for this week’s Build 🚀 event!

It is a special week when Microsoft will be announcing publicly the latest innovations in code and development tools and services to global audience.

This is a unique opportunity to learn about the industry directions in #development, #azure, #lowcode and how Microsoft is evolving post-pandemic.

Thus, save the date and register to attend it between May 24-26, 2022.

📌 Register for #FREE 👉 on official site https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home.

Have you attended before?

Did you had a chance to attend this awesome event last year?
If yes, then please let me know on LinkedIn chat what is/was your favorite topics or session.

All right, hope you all will enjoy the #MSBuild and share your experience ❤

Cloud Marathoner ranked in the Top 100 Azure blogs

Greetings to my dear Cloud Marathoner friends!

We have a piece of great news to celebrate this week as our blog is one of the 100 Best Microsoft Azure Blogs and Websites in 2022 (feedspot.com). Yay 🎉🎉🎉

Actually, our blog post progressed up by one rank, and now it is in the 56th spot.

***#CloudMarathoner on FeedSpot TOP 100 Azure Blogs***

Could it make it to the TOP 10 Azure Blogs?

Well, I don’t want to speculate on that but, everything is possible with your help 👍👍👍

Yes, YOU – my dearest readers and supporters 💪 of #cloudmarathoner movement!!!

Thank you for all you do 🙌🙌🙌

What is a FeedSpot blog site?

This site has a very selective editorial team and does a very hard job of on objectively deciding which blogs deserve the top spot for the readers.

I was informed that the FeedSpot editorial team extensively searches on Google and social media websites to find the best Microsoft Azure blogs and ranks them based on several factors such as:

Blog content quality
Post consistency
Age of the blog
Average number of shares on social sites of the blog posts
Traffic of the blog site and more.

Here is the clear text URL below, where you can find more about the TOP 100 Azure blogs: https://blog.feedspot.com/microsoft_azure_blogs/

Conclusion

Check out the links posted above and visit this site, and please like & subscribe to the #cloudmarathoner.

Finally, the GitHub profile is updated 🎉

Hello friends,

Hope everyone is having a great start in 2022.

I have to postpone a couple of things at the end of 2021 due to unexpected events, and one of them was updated to my old GitHub account.

Since the beginning of 2019, there were many great additions to the GitHub community. One of the remarkable features is the ability to customize your profile.

Without any overdue, I have analyzed a couple of tips from the link above and looked into samples, and created my customized GitHub profile.

Of course, it is not perfect. I am looking to make it better over time.

Please, let me know your suggestions and feedback or share your #awesome GitHub profile with the community!

Quarterly website statistics on Cloud Marathoner’s Journey

Hi friends,

I was looking into an analytics tool to check the current status of a site, and was blown away by interest in my blog posts.

Your continued interest in the #cloudmarathoner perspective and interest to check and learn – adds extra motivation to my blogging, as it brings a visible value to the community.

All right, without any overdue, here is are the statistics for the last quarter:

Looks like our blog is doing pretty well on all categories. Although most users are visiting from the US and India, there are blog readers from all over the world.

And of course there is not much activity, as i was on a summer break during July and beginning of August 🙂

Just want to say ” HUGE Thank You !!! ” – for continued interest and support in #cloudmarathoner content!

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New four services added to “Azure free services” catalog

Hi Cloud Marathoner friends!

Who would resist to learn Azure cloud and utilize free services that have been annnces this month?

Yes, you have read this correct, there are 4 more servics added to exisiting 25+ always free and 12 months set of free products, up to the monthly limits.

Those services are listed on the infographic:

✔️ Azure Key Vault
✔️ Azure Database for PostreSQL
✔️ Azure Media Services
✔️ Azure Database for MySQL

Have you used these new services in your labs or projects yet?
If not, that is okay. Here is the brief description what you can do with these services listed above:

Azure Key Vault – helps teams to securely store and manage sensitive information such as keys, passwords, certificates, etc., in a centralized storage which are safeguarded by industry-standard algorithms, key lengths, and even hardware security modules.

Azure Database for PostreSQL – with Azure you can run your PostgreSQL Server workloads in a hosted virtual machine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or as a hosted platform as a service (PaaS). The PaaS option has multiple deployment choices, each with multiple service tiers that you can use with Azure Database for PostreSQL.

Azure Database for MySQL – take the model tha we described above and apply it to MySQL. That how simple it is..

Azure Media Services – lets you deliver any media, on virtually any device, to anywhere in the world using the cloud. The collection of services provide encoding, live or on-demand streaming, content protection and indexing for video and audio content.

Which products are free for 12 months?

These products are free for 12 months, up to the monthly limits. Availability is based on resource and region.

Check out the details about each of these services on Microsoft Azure’s website.

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