Workshops & Training

Build the skills to thrive there.

Instructor-led, hands-on Azure workshops delivered by Ace McClinton — a Microsoft Certified Trainer with 60+ internal Microsoft Azure delivery accreditations. Full classes with demo labs — labs run in your Azure tenant, materials stay with your team, and knowledge transfer is the point: your people can run the next migration without me.

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Taught by someone who has done the work — 60+ times over, inside Microsoft

Ace holds 62 internal Microsoft Azure delivery accreditations from his time as a Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution Architect (2019–2022), on top of his public Microsoft certifications. That is the depth behind every workshop below: not theory read from a deck, but delivery patterns used on real migrations.

62 internal Microsoft Azure delivery accreditations
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Administrator Associate
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure CSA, 2019–2022

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Workshop offerings

Format for every workshop: a full class with demo labs — half-day to 3-day, hands-on labs in your Azure tenant, all materials yours to keep. Pick one track, or stack them into a team upskilling plan. These are Ace Cloud Guru workshops built around Microsoft Learn and official Azure course topics — not Microsoft official courses, and not sold as such.

Why a catalog, not a module list: these are full classes with demo labs, in the WorkshopPLUS style found in Microsoft Engage Center (formerly Services Hub) — instructor-led, hands-on labs in a secure environment, not a list of individual Microsoft Learn modules. Each workshop below is a complete class your team can book, with demos and labs included.

Fundamentals · AZ-900

Azure Fundamentals

Cloud concepts, core Azure services, governance, and pricing — the shared vocabulary every migration team needs before it touches a subscription.

Audience: all roles, including non-technical leads · Format: half-day to 1 day

Administration · AZ-104

Azure Administrator

Identity (Entra ID), governance, compute, networking, storage, and monitoring — running an Azure estate day to day, with labs in your tenant.

Audience: administrators, infrastructure engineers · Format: 2–3 days

Architecture · AZ-305

Designing Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Enterprise design across identity, governance, data, compute, networking, and resilience — landing zones, hub-and-spoke, and Virtual WAN patterns.

Audience: architects, senior engineers · Format: 2–3 days

Migration · Ace Cloud Guru

AI-Accelerated Migration

Use Azure Migrate's AI features, GitHub Copilot, and dependency-mapping tooling to assess an estate, build wave plans, and run a migration — the same approach used in the 2–3 week AI-Accelerated Migration Assessment.

Audience: migration teams, platform engineers · Format: 1–3 days, hands-on

Modernization · .NET & Containers

AI-Assisted Application Modernization

.NET Framework to .NET on App Service/AKS, legacy Java to containers, and SQL Server to Azure SQL — with AI-assisted code analysis under architect review, plus automated testing gates.

Audience: developers, platform engineers · Format: 2–3 days

DevOps & IaC · AZ-400

DevOps, Terraform & Bicep

CI/CD in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Bicep, and artifact governance — repeatable delivery instead of one-off deployments.

Audience: DevOps, platform engineers · Format: 2 days

Security · AZ-500

Securing Azure Resources

Identity and access, platform protection, data and application security, and security operations — controls, posture, and remediation in practice.

Audience: security engineers, administrators · Format: 2 days

AI · AI-900 & Azure OpenAI

Prompt Engineering for Cloud Engineers & Azure AI

Practical prompting patterns for infrastructure and migration work, plus Azure AI fundamentals — Azure OpenAI, RAG over internal docs with Azure AI Search, and Copilot-assisted workflows.

Audience: engineers, technical leads · Format: 1–2 days

FinOps

Azure FinOps & Cost Optimization

Cost visibility, tagging and governance, rightsizing, and reservations — the FinOps baseline that keeps a migration's bill from becoming the next problem.

Audience: platform, finance, engineering leads · Format: half-day to 1 day

Data · DP-900

Azure Data Fundamentals

Core data concepts, relational and non-relational data on Azure, and analytics workloads — the foundation for teams modernizing data alongside applications.

Audience: data engineers, analysts, developers · Format: 1 day

Governance · New

Azure Governance & Compliance

Management Groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, tagging, and naming standards — the guardrails that keep a landing zone clean, auditable, and compliant as teams scale.

Audience: platform, governance, security leads · Format: 1–2 days

Cost Optimization · Well-Architected Framework · New

WAF Cost Optimization Workshop

The Well-Architected Framework cost optimization pillar, taught by someone who helped create the WAF cost optimization workshop while at Microsoft — cost modeling, rightsizing, reservations, and continuous optimization as a discipline, not a one-off cleanup.

Audience: platform, finance, engineering leads · Format: 1–2 days

Managing on-premises and multi-cloud servers and Kubernetes through Azure Arc, with unified governance and policy.

Format: 1 day

Resilience

Resilience, DR & Business Continuity

Availability zones, region pairing, chaos-free failure testing, and runbooks that have actually been exercised.

Format: 1 day

Not sure which track your team needs?

Book a free consultation and we will map the workshops to your migration or modernization plan — no obligation, and no generic course list.

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