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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)

Architectural considerations for High Availability

In this section, we will go through some of the architectures for High Availability.

High Availability within Azure regions

The architecture shown next, shows High Availability deployment within a single Azure region. High Availability is designed at the individual resource level. In this architecture, there are multiple virtual machines at each tier connected through either application gateway or load balancer and they are part of an availability set. Each tier is associated with an availability set. These virtual machines are placed on separate fault and update domains. While the web servers are connected to application gateways, the rest of the tiers such as application...