IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS

• Overview
  

Azure Compute Services

• Choosing the Right Azure Compute Service
  
• IaaS:
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Azure Virtual Machine Scalesets
• PaaS:
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure Spring Apps
  • Azure Kubernetes Services
  • Azure Container Instances
• FaaS:
  • Azure Functions

Billing

• Azure charges for services
  • Unit of time: generally hourly in few services its second
  • If you give long term commmitment ( 1 year or 3 years) we get extra discounts (Azure Reservations/Azure Service Plans)
  • To make revenue out of free hardware they run some auction kind of model (Azure Spot Instances)

Azure Account

• Our Accounts: Free tier
  • Refer Here for Azure Free tier
    
• Enterprise Accounts
  

Ways of Working in Azure

• We have 3 major ways of accessing azure
  • From Browser (Portal)
  • From Command Line (Azure CLI)
  • From Templates (IaC/ ARM Templates/Azure Bicep)

Quick Start: Create a Linux Virtual Machine

• Refer Here for Azure Quickstart