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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By : Greg Leonardo
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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By: Greg Leonardo

Overview of this book

Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership. Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure. You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure Advisors


In Azure, there are Advisors that assist in helping you follow best practices. They are like little helpers that move through your applications in Azure and provide some great feedback on issues before they become a problem. They do this by analyzing your configurations and telemetry data and making recommendations.

Azure Advisors assist with the following errors:

  • High availability
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Cost

Azure Advisors

Note

To access Azure Advisors, you need to be in the Owner, Contributor, or Reader role within the Subscription.

High Availability Advisor

This handles business-critical applications to ensure and improve continuity. It will help with recommendations, such as the following:

  • Virtual Machine, Application Gateway, and availability set fault tolerance
  • Virtual Machine disk performance and reliability
  • Virtual Machine accidental data deletion
  • Creating alerts for Azure issues that affect your resources

High Availability Advisor

As you can see, it can provide some insight into certain...