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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 Network Infrastructure and Design

Planning for and enabling communication between applications, components, and dependent platforms is a key part of architecting any infrastructure, regardless of where it lives. The concept of physical networking components and virtual networking components have been around for decades. It’s important to have a well-designed, well-defined, secure, and efficient network environment for your applications. Introducing new networking segments can cause additional latency between application components if proper steps are not taken to anticipate the flow of traffic and keep communications between different components efficient. Not having a well-defined or secure network can open your organization up to liabilities, such as cyberattacks, and compromise proprietary or sensitive data.

Azure provides a wealth of different network services meant to manage, direct, monitor, filter, and handle several types of traffic across many different topologies...