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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)

Introduction

Organizations place great emphasis on efficiency and accuracy, aiming to reduce manual effort and mitigate errors in their operations. Automation is a key enabler in achieving these objectives by bringing about predictability, standardization, and consistency across product development and operations.

As a leader in cloud computing technologies, Azure offers an extensive range of tools and services designed to empower organizations in deploying, operating, and overseeing the infrastructure of their applications and services in the cloud. While it is possible to build an infrastructure by manually creating Azure resources through the Azure portal, this can be time-consuming and tedious when dealing with intricate infrastructures that span multiple environments and regions. In such scenarios, automation emerges as the ideal solution.

Automation is important to business decision-makers and architects. It enables organizations to meet the fluctuating needs of customers...