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Azure for Decision Makers

By : Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
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Book Image

Azure for Decision Makers

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By: Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you’ll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you’ll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Identity and access management

The importance of IAM solutions has grown significantly in recent years, particularly since organizations have switched to remote work. With more employees accessing company resources from outside the office, it has become more critical than ever to have robust IAM solutions in place. IAM solutions ensure that only authorized users have access to the right resources and are secured against unauthorized access or cyberattacks.

With IAM, organizations have the opportunity to improve how resources are managed and accessed by different types of users. These users could be employees, contractors, business partners, or customers with different access requirements. IAM solutions help organizations manage these different user types by providing role-based access control (RBAC) and other features that allow administrators to manage access levels and permissions.

Azure IAM solutions are the preferred choice for organizations as they provide scalable solutions...