Microsoft Azure
Azure fundamentals and its AI services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, AI Search and machine learning on Azure.
Beginner
Start here. No background needed beyond school maths.
Get Started with AI Applications and Agents on Azure
A free Microsoft Learn path introducing Azure's AI platform: choosing models, building simple AI apps and agents, and the tools in Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft Learn
Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure: Describe Cloud Concepts
Microsoft's own free, self-paced modules on what the cloud is, its benefits and the service types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). The first step of the Azure Fundamentals path.
Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
The free study path for core data concepts on Azure: relational and non-relational data, analytics workloads and the Azure data services that handle them.
Microsoft Learn
Advanced
Once the basics are comfortable.
Develop Generative AI Apps on Microsoft Foundry
Hands-on modules for developers: deploying language models, prompt flow, retrieval-augmented generation over your own data, and evaluating generative AI apps on Azure.
Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
Free learning paths for training, tracking and deploying machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning, including working with language models.
Microsoft Learn
Expert
Research-level depth and specialist material.