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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned the importance of cost management and administration when working in a cloud environment. We also covered the various Azure pricing options and various price optimization capabilities that Azure offers. Managing a project's cost is paramount primarily because the monthly expense could be very low but could rise if the resources are not monitored periodically. Cloud architects should design their applications in a cost-effective manner. They should use appropriate Azure resources, appropriate SKUs, tiers, and sizes, and know when to start, stop, scale up, scale out, scale down, scale in, transfer data, and more. Proper cost management will ensure that the actual expense meets the budgetary expenses.

In the next chapter, we will look at various Azure features related to data services, such as Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and sharding.