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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


Having read this chapter, you should now know how all services integrate, and how you should approach an existing infrastructure and its requirements. You should now be able to identify basic Azure services and compare them to classic on-premises services and server systems.

If you go through such a scenario and you want to get a better understand what could be the estimated costs or what are the Total Costs of Ownership (TCO) and when you are reaching the return of investment, Microsoft offers two tools you can leverage.

Azure Price Calculator

First and from a personal perspective most important tool is the Azure price calculator. With the calculator, you can estimate the costs of your environment, running on Azure.

You can add any kind of Azure service from the product selector shown here:

Change the sizing of the service:

And afterwards, you will get a complete estimate of your solution via web (1) or you can export it as a .csv file(2).

You can find the Azure Price Calculator at https...