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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)

Understanding the serverless platform in Microsoft Azure

Serverless computing is a deployment model that allows organizations to focus solely on their application code and configuration, without the need to manage the underlying platform and infrastructure. While servers are still required to run the code and handle compute, storage, and networking resources, the customer is shielded from the intricacies of these components. This arrangement allows customers to utilize the benefits of serverless computing while offloading the complexities of managing underlying resources to the cloud provider.

By adopting a serverless approach, customers benefit from an environment that can dynamically scale resources up and down, both vertically and horizontally, without intervention. This scalability is automatically handled behind the scenes by the cloud provider, allowing customers to focus solely on their business problems and deliver value to their organizations.

Functions as a Service...