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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
5 (1)
Book Image

Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Security features of Azure SQL

When it comes to Azure SQL features, there are multiple different options you can use to make your solution secure. Things such as firewalls, full operation auditing, and data encryption are the common capabilities of this service and are available even for the Basic tier. In this section, we will focus on learning the aforementioned capabilities so that your instance is secured and immune to most threats.

Firewall

When browsing your SQL database, you probably noticed the Set server firewall button that is available on the Overview blade, as shown here:

Figure 17.17 – Set server firewall button available on Overview blade of SQL database

This is the easiest way to set a firewall rule that allows traffic to Azure SQL.

Note

In Azure SQL, all traffic is initially rejected—you must whitelist all Internet Protocol addresses (IPs) of computers that should...