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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 Design Patterns

In the previous chapter, we got an overview of Azure cloud and explained some of the important concepts related to it. This chapter is about Azure cloud patterns related to virtual networks, storage accounts, regions, and availability sets. These are important constructs that affect the final architecture delivered to customers in terms of cost, efficiencies, and overall productivity. This chapter will also briefly discuss cloud patterns that help in implementing scalability and performance within the overall architecture.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Azure virtual network design
  • Azure storage design
  • Azure zones, regions, and availability sets
  • Azure design patterns related to the following:
    • Messaging
    • Performance
    • Scalability