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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

Approaches for Azure adoption

As you consider Azure adoption for your cloud infrastructure strategy, you can choose from different ways to deploy cloud services—public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multiple clouds, and at the edge of networks. Deciding between these computing environments can depend on a variety of factors.

Let's take a look at each of these approaches.

Public cloud

The most common type of cloud computing service is a public cloud, which is provided by third-party cloud providers and delivered over the public internet. The resources in these public cloud environments are owned and managed by the underlying cloud provider, which in the case of Azure is Microsoft. In public clouds, resources are shared with other organizations or cloud tenants; these can include services such as email, CRM, VMs, and databases.

Some common public cloud use cases involve organizations who want to expose their public workloads, such as public websites or mobile...