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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Azure security policies and locks

Security policies in Azure define rules and configurations to manage and mitigate risk in the Azure environment. They provide a robust set of default policies out of the box and allow for custom policy creation, thus ensuring that an organization’s specific security and compliance requirements are met.

Security policies help you ensure all resources are configured according to the organization’s security requirements and standards. This consistency reduces the chances of security gaps and vulnerabilities. They also help in enforcing specific configurations and settings. Security policies help organizations to meet industry standards and regulatory requirements.

When using Azure security policies, you should avoid creating broad policies. Instead, focus on creating granular policies that can be applied to specific resources or resource groups. You should review and update your policies to ensure they reflect changes in your organization...