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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)

Azure tags

Tags in a dictionary is defined as a label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other information. Azure allows tagging of resource groups and resources with name-value pairs. Tagging helps in logical organization and categorization of resources. Azure also allows tagging 15 name-value pairs for resource groups and its resources. Although resource group is a container for resources, tagging resource group does not mean tagging of its constituent resources. Resource groups and resources should be tagged based on their usage, which will be explained later in this section. Tags work at a subscription level. Azure accepts any name-value pairs and so it is important for an organization to define both the names and their possible values.

But why is tagging important? In other words, what problems can be solved using tagging. Tagging...