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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)

Best practices

Architects needs to put in additional effort to understand their architecture and Azure components utilized. Based on the active monitoring, audits, and usage, they should determine the offering from Microsoft in terms of Sku, size, and features. This section will detail some of the best practices to be adopted from a cost optimization perspective.

Compute best practices

Compute refers to services that help in execution of services. Some of the best practices related to compute are as follows:

  • Choose the best location for your compute services such as virtual machines. Choose a location where all Azure features and resources are available together in the same region. This will avoid egress traffic. 
  • Choose...