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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)

The importance of good architectural design

As cloud computing has become an indispensable component of modern IT infrastructure, the need for good architectural design in cloud systems has become more important than ever. The complexity and scale of cloud-based services demand careful planning, strategic design, and thorough implementation to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Scalability and elasticity

Cloud architectures designed with scalability and elasticity in mind enable organizations to grow or shrink their infrastructure according to the fluctuating demands of their workloads. Scalability refers to the ability to increase or decrease hardware and software resources relative to fluctuations in system resource usage. Scaling is often a pain point in implementing larger systems, as it requires manual oversight and intervention when responding to the increased load. What often happens is that we scale up and rarely scale down, so we cannot...