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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

What is an Azure Cloud Service?


Good question! An Azure Cloud Service is a highly available, scalable, and multi-layered web app hosted on a Windows VM with an installed IIS.

Hosted on a VM? Now you're probably thinking that an Azure Cloud Service is an Azure IaaS solution. Though the idea is obvious, there is a major difference. Cloud Services must be designed to work properly when any parts of the service fail. For this reason, the applications must not store their state in the filesystem of their own virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines created with Azure virtual machines, writes to virtual Cloud Services computers are not persistent because they do not have any virtual machines data disks. OK, enough of the remarks.