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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)

Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

Azure is a versatile cloud platform. Customers can not only create and deploy their application, they can also actively manage and govern their environments. Clouds generally follow a pay-as-you-go paradigm where a customer subscribes for an Azure subscription and virtually can deploy anything on it. It could be as small as a small basic virtual machine to thousands of virtual machines with higher Sku's. Azure will not stop any customer from provisioning any resources or constraint them in terms of numbers. Within an organization there could be a large number of people having access to the Azure subscription. There is a need to have a governance model in place such that only the required adequate resources are provisioned by people who have rights to create them. Azure provides resource management features, such as Azure Role based Access...