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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have 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. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

The Azure pricing calculator

Azure provides a cost calculator for users and customers to estimate their cost and usage. This calculator is available at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/calculator/:

Users can select multiple resources from the left menu and they will be added to the calculator. In the following example, a virtual machine is added. Further configuration with regard to virtual machine region, operating system, type, tier, instance size, number of hours, and count can be done:

Similarly, the cost for Azure Functions in terms of virtual machine memory size, execution time, and execution per second is shown next:

Azure provides different levels and plans of support, which are as follows:

  • Default support: Free
  • Developer support: $29 per month
  • Standard support: $300 per month
  • Professional direct: $1,000 per month

Finally, the overall estimated cost is displayed...