My Dad Said: Start With Compute. Now I See Why.

When I told my dad I had started learning Azure, he asked me one question. “Where did you start?” I mentioned tutorials, some documentation, and browsing the portal. He said something simple: “Start with compute. Everything else in the cloud builds on top of it.” At the time, it sounded obvious. Of course applications need computers to run. But when I opened the Compute section inside Azure, I started seeing what he actually meant. The moment cloud stopped being abstract In tutorials, cloud computing often feels very conceptual. You hear words like scalability, high availability, distributed systems, and managed services. But those are still ideas. When you open the Compute section in Azure, the abstraction disappears. Suddenly you see things like: Virtual Machines Virtual Machine Scale Sets Images Availability Sets At first glance, it looks like a lot of different services. But underneath, they all revolve around one question: Where does your code actually run? Because before anything