Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master the complexities of designing robust and scalable Azure architectures with this comprehensive course. You will learn advanced strategies to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and optimized performance in Azure environments. Whether planning for migration or designing new solutions, this course equips you with the tools for success. The course begins with foundational principles of high availability, guiding you through identifying availability requirements for compute, storage, and network components in Azure. From designing solutions for non-relational and relational data storage to exploring container-based and serverless computing, each module builds upon real-world use cases to deepen your expertise. You will then dive into application architecture, learning to implement caching, messaging, and event-driven designs. With a focus on automated deployment and API integration, you'll ensure your solutions are efficient and future-ready. The migration module further strengthens your ability to evaluate and migrate on-premises servers, applications, and databases to Azure, leveraging the Cloud Adoption Framework. This course is ideal for IT professionals, solution architects, and engineers aiming to design and implement advanced Azure solutions. A basic understanding of Azure fundamentals and cloud computing is recommended, but this course will elevate your expertise to the next level.