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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 scalability

In this section, we will see features and capabilities provided by Azure to make applications highly available. Before we get into the architecture and configuration details, it is important to understand Azure High Availability related concepts.

Concepts

The fundamental constructs provided by Azure to attain High Availability is through:

  • Scaling
  • Scaling up and down
  • Scaling out and in
  • Auto scaling
  • Rolling updates

Scaling

Scaling refers to the transformation that either increases or decreases the units of resources used to serve requests from users....