"The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice."

Wow, that sounds awesome! However, that's marketing. And it was designed to do just that: sound cool. Now let's find out, hands-on, what Azure can actually do for you and your organization.

We'll touch upon some of the most important Azure services, the tools we can use and how to keep a grip on the deployment lifecycle and your Azure environment(s).