Modern Data Architecture – Part 1 – Navigating the Azure Portal

Logging into Azure and the Portal

Open up a web browser and navigate to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ and click on “Portal” to log in.

You will be navigated to authentication portal to log in.
- You can either sign up for a new account which comes with free credit for a year or use a designated account for your organization.

Once logged in, you will be navigated to the Azure Portal.
- The center portion will outline most recent resourcess you have worked with or have access too
- On the left-hand side, you can navigate to resources or have the ability to create new ones
- The search at the top can also be used to navigate to different resources

Explore more services by clicking the “More Services” button. From here you can find helpful documentation in addition to seeing all the other offering Azure provides including free ones!

Be sure to check out my full online class on the topic. A hands on walk through of a Modern Data Architecture using Microsoft Azure. For beginners and experienced business intelligence experts alike, learn the basic of navigating the Azure Portal to building an end to end solution of a modern data warehouse using popular technologies such as SQL Database, Data Lake, Data Factory, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse Data Warehouse and Power BI. Link to the class can be found here.

Part 1 – Navigating the Azure Portal

Part 2 – Resource Groups and Subscriptions

Part 3 – Creating Data Lake Storage

Part 4 – Setting up an Azure SQL Server

Part 5 – Loading Data Lake with Azure Data Factory

Part 6 – Configuring and Setting up Data Bricks

Part 7 – Staging data into Data Lake

Part 8 = Provisioning a Synapse SQL Data Warehouse

Part 9 – Loading Data into Azure Data Synapse Data Warehouse

Modern Data Architecture – Part 1 – Navigating the Azure Portal