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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)

Usage and quotas

Each subscription has a limited quota for each resource type. For example, there could be a maximum of 60 public IP addresses provisioned with an MSDN Microsoft account. Similarly, all resources have a maximum default limit for each resource type. These resource type numbers for a subscription can be increased by contacting Azure support or clicking on the Request Increase button.

The usage and quota information is available from the usage + quotas sub menu of the Subscription menu:

This blade shows all resource types provisioned in subscription along with their location and counts. Here the quota for classic storage accounts is 100 and currently three classic storage accounts have been consumed.

There are filter criteria's available based on location, providers, usage, and quotas. Custom reports based on these filter criteria can be generated.

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