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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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Index

Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

As organizations shifted their workforce to work from home, critical infrastructure and applications were impacted. While some organizations were able to migrate their applications to the cloud, others had to redesign their environment in the cloud. However, designing and deploying a successful workload in the cloud can be challenging, especially when there is a time constraint for an organization to ensure that they continue to support their clients around the world.

When operating in the cloud, there are several design principles and considerations that differ from operating on-premises, such as the way you manage workloads, infrastructure costs, monitoring, security, and performance. Many of the management tasks that we used to do for on-premises applications do not apply to the cloud.

If these considerations for the workloads that we are running in the cloud are not deployed properly, there are various consequences that might impact...