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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)

Summary

High Availability is an important and crucial architectural concern. Almost every application and every architect tries to implement High Availability. Traditionally, High Availability was implemented from ground-up without any support from platforms. Azure is a mature platform that understands the need of High Availability for applications and in this bid, provides resources to implement High Availability from granular to data center level. High Availability is not an afterthought and should be part of the application life cycle development from the planning phase itself. Azure provides availability sets that ensure virtual machines are placed on separate fault and update domains. Fault domains ensure that unplanned rack level disruption does not change the availability of an application, while update domains take care of planned maintenance. Even Azure PaaS services...