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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)

Cloud Security

Security is undoubtedly the most important non-functional requirement for architects to implement. Enterprises prioritize and provide extreme focus on getting their security strategy implemented correctly. In fact, security is one of the top concerns for almost every stakeholder in any application development, deployment, and management. It becomes all the way more important when the same application is built for deployment on cloud.

Running applications and systems that are available to users for consumption is an important consideration for architects for any serious application. However, there is another equally important application feature that is one of the top priorities for architects and it is the scalability of applications. Imagine situations in which applications are deployed and obtain great performance and availability with a few users, but both availability...