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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)

Azure pricing models

Azure has multiple pricing models. It virtually has a model for almost every type of customer. From free accounts for students and developers to pay-as-you-go, from enterprise agreements to cloud solution provider partner model. Apart from these account types, there are add-on pricing and discounts like reserved VM instances and Azure hybrid benefits.

Azure hybrid benefits

When a virtual machine is provisioned on Azure, there are two types of cost are involved. These two types of cost are the resource cost for running the virtual machine and operating system license cost. Although enterprise agreement customers get some discounts compared to other accounts fro the pricing perspective, Azure provides another...