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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Monitoring and Auditing

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it"

Lord Kelvin

Imagine a situation where you have architected a solution that is deployed over the cloud as well as on an on-premise data center, consisting of multiple services such as IaaS and PaaS, multi-tier, multi-layer application components. It is based on a highly optimized architecture in terms of availability, scalability, security, performance and more. It is in production now. Now, also imagine that there is no monitoring facility baked into the solution.

There are a few challenges here, they are as follows:

  • The availability, scalability, security, and reliability of the solution is not known at any point of time.
  • The operations team has no clue about whether the solution is working as expected or not until the users and customers start calling them.
  • The performance of...