Mike: Hi folks.
Let's do a quick summary of
what we've covered in this course
and take a look at where we go from here.
I want to take a moment to congratulate you on making it
to the end of this course.
There is a lot of information that we have covered together,
including cloud and hybrid network connectivity,
where you learned how to connect your on-premises networks,
other clouds, and Azure virtual networks
using services like Azure VPN Gateway, Express Route,
and Virtual Wan.
These solutions enable secure
and reliable connectivity,
allowing you to build hybrid cloud architectures
that span across different environments.
Next, we talked about securing external
and internal network traffic.
You discovered how to protect your Azure resources
from external threats using services like Azure firewall,
network security groups, and web application firewall.
Additionally, you learned how to secure internal traffic
within your Azure virtual networks using NSGs,
service endpoints, and private endpoints.
By implementing a defense in depth approach
across both of these concepts,
you can create a robust security posture for your network.
Moving on, we covered distributing regional
and global application traffic.
You learned how to use Azure load balancer
and application gateway
to distribute traffic within a region,
ensuring high availability
and scalability for your applications.
For global traffic distribution,
you explored services
like Azure Front Door and Traffic Manager,
which enable you to route users
to the closest and most performant endpoints
based on their location and other factors.
Lastly, we focused on securing application network traffic.
You learned when to use Azure web application firewall
to protect your applications from common vulnerabilities
and attacks, and additionally,
you discovered how Azure DDoS protection
can help safeguard your resources
against distributed denial of service attacks,
ensuring the availability
and reliability of your applications.
As you move forward, consider exploring these topics further
and applying your knowledge to real world scenarios.
Practice implementing these networking solutions
in your own Azure environment and continue to stay updated
with the latest advancements in Azure networking.
Remember, Azure offers a wide range of networking services
and features that are constantly evolving
that can be combined to build secure, scalable,
and highly available architectures.
Each organization has specific goals and requirements
that need to be considered when suggesting a solution.
Keep learning, experimenting,
and exploring what is possible
with networking solutions in Azure.
There's anything that you should take away from this course.
It's the importance of the role of an architect
and what their key responsibilities are.
Your role as an architect is
to provide guidance based on requirements
that your customer provides
and also that you ascertain
through interacting with your customer.
It's important to know when a solution will be suitable
to meet business requirements and when it will not.
You want to enable your stakeholders
to make informed decisions when trading off
between the requirements.
There are hard lines
such as regulatory compliance requirements,
yet at the same time going beyond those,
you now have the question of security versus convenience
for your users and your systems.
How do you handle those trade-offs?
This is an important thing that you need
to make sure your stakeholders understand
when they make those decisions in the trade-off process.
It's also important to remember
to always follow up with your stakeholders
and with your customers.
With the constant evolution of technologies
and services in the cloud, your solution will age with time,
and staying up to date with all of the changes helps you
to then create new solutions
or evolve the solutions that you've already provided
to help your stakeholders continue
to meet the requirements that they have.
When it comes to the key outcomes that we want,
use all of the course content.
Don't skip quizzes or hands-on labs.
Follow through the course content remembering
that the course is designed to paint
a complete picture of the topics that it's covering.
So now that you've completed this course, what's next?
Ideally, you go and follow the AZ305 learning path
to prepare for the exam.
Thanks so much for joining me for this course,
and I want to encourage you
to continue on in your cloud journey.