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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we reviewed how you can plan, design, and implement reliable systems in the cloud. We went through the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected initiative and how it can help you adopt best practices to improve the quality of your workloads running in the cloud. Then we took a deep dive into the underlying infrastructure of Azure to give you all the information you need to decide how best to meet your migration goals. We also talked about common workload migration scenarios and how to achieve cloud scale and maximize performance on Azure.

Lastly, we reviewed how ASR and Azure Backup can help you quickly pivot to remote work for your employees, ensuring business continuity during a failover and access to your data in a secure manner.

In the next chapter, we will review how you can improve your security posture when enabling remote work.