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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have examined the world of networking in Azure. We have reviewed several standard design patterns used when configuring and provisioning networking components, a list of many different Azure cloud networking services that are currently available, and a collection of common problem spaces that you may encounter when designing networks in the wild.

You’ve learned about core components such as virtual networks, subnets, and gateways. You’ve seen how the OSI model’s representation of application communication can be applied to various available network services and when that can help drive decisions on when to use certain services. These decisions on what to use can be combined with those common problem spaces to ultimately provide a solution that will meet the needs of a business or organization.

In Chapter 5, we will cover cloud architecture design patterns, including patterns for serverless components, virtual machines, container...