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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

Security was always an important aspect for any deployment and solution. It has become much more important and relevant because of deployments on the cloud. Moreover, there are increasing events and threats from cybersecurity attacks. In such circumstances, security has become the focal point for organizations. No matter the type of deployment and solution--whether IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, security is needed across all of them. Azure data centers are completely secure and they have a dozen international security certifications. They are secure by default. They provide IaaS security resources such as NSGs, network address translation, secure endpoints, certificates, key vaults, storage and virtual machine encryption, and PaaS security features for individual PaaS resources. Security has a complete life cycle of its own and it should be properly planned, designed, implemented...