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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed what OLTP systems are, including what constitutes transactional data along with some properties and traits that all OLTP systems share. We’ve explored several different Azure offerings that support OLTP applications, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Database for MySQL. We have inspected the different deployment types for Azure SQL Database, such as single instance, managed instance, and elastic pools. We walked through the different features of Cosmos DB, which is a globally available data store for non-structured data that is OLTP compatible. We’ve looked at the different hardware tiers available to all database services in Azure, including General Purpose, Hyperscale, and Business Critical.

Architects should perform a complete assessment of their requirements and choose the appropriate deployment model. After choosing a deployment model, they...