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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

A unified SecOps experience

As organizations deploy cloud applications and provide access for remote workers, maintaining consistency to ensure cloud compliance, avoiding misconfigurations, reducing the risk of potential attacks, and achieving organization-wide governance can become a huge challenge.

You can enforce organizational standards to assess compliance at scale using Azure Policy and evaluate compliance by evaluating the properties of your resources through policy definitions. Azure Policy provides a compliance dashboard that can be used to see more granular details per resource or per policy, which ensures your resources are compliant. In addition, you can define Azure initiatives, which are a collection of Azure policy definitions, to help you achieve your goals and simplify the management of your policies:

Policy compliance window

Figure 6.12: Policy compliance

Within this context, your organization can utilize a new capability in Azure Policy called Regulatory...