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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 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 is provided to calculate its cost:

Similarly, cost for Azure functions for virtual machine memory size, execution time, and execution per seconds is shown next:

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

  • Default support: It is free
  • Developer support: 29 dollars per month
  • Standard support: 300 dollars per month
  • Profession direct: 1000 dollars per month

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