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Azure for Decision Makers

By : Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

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Azure for Decision Makers

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By: Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you’ll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you’ll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.

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Preface

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction

Evolution of Microsoft Azure

IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

Public, private, hybrid, multicloud, and edge

Importance of the shared responsibility model

Reasons for adopting Azure

Thinking about cloud management, migration, security, and governance

Start building with Azure

Summary

Chapter 2: Modernizing with Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Computing

Chapter 2: Modernizing with Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Computing

Reasons for embracing hybrid, multicloud, and edge computing

What makes a hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy successful?

Unified operations – one set of tools and processes

Thinking about workloads and architecture

Important operational considerations

Summary

Chapter 3: Migration and Modernization

Chapter 3: Migration and Modernization

Benefits of modernization and migration to the cloud

Workload migration scenarios

Achieving cloud scale and maximizing performance

Enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery on Azure

Azure migration and modernization best practices and support

Chapter 4: Maximizing Azure Security Benefits for Your Organization

Chapter 4: Maximizing Azure Security Benefits for Your Organization

Identity and access management

Delivering intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence using Microsoft Sentinel

Searching, analyzing, and visualizing data in Microsoft Sentinel

Securing your workloads using the Microsoft cloud security benchmark

Enhancing organizational security with Microsoft Defender for Identity

Protecting devices against advanced threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Securing sensitive data and meeting regulations with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Secure infrastructure everywhere: Deploying hybrid security solutions from the cloud to the edge

Securing your Kubernetes clusters in Azure: protecting against threats and vulnerabilities

Summary

Chapter 5: Automation and Governance in Azure

Chapter 5: Automation and Governance in Azure

Automate provisioning of Azure resources using IaC

Microsoft-native IaC frameworks

Automate ARM templates and Bicep with Azure DevOps and GitHub

Best practices for using Azure DevOps and GitHub for IaC on Azure

Improve governance with Azure

Implement governance on Azure

Five disciplines of cloud governance

Summary

Chapter 6: Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Savings in Azure

Chapter 6: Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Savings in Azure

Cost optimization with the Microsoft Azure Well‑Architected Framework

Incorporating Azure Advisor best practice recommendations for cost savings

Implementing cost management best practices

Effective budgeting for Azure services

Summary

Next Steps

Next Steps

Index

Index

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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction, covers the reasons an organization might engage with cloud computing, and why Microsoft Azure in particular is a compelling choice. It goes on to discuss the various types of cloud environments and crucial security and governance considerations when migrating to the cloud.

Chapter 2, Modernizing with Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Computing, covers how these modernizing approaches can drive significant efficiency, agility, and innovation improvements for any organization. It also covers the set of tools Microsoft Azure provides for a modern, flexible, and secure infrastructure transition.

Chapter 3, Migration and Modernization, describes how the benefits of the cloud can help businesses stay ahead of the curve and drive innovation in their industry, as well as how an organization can accelerate its cloud adoption journey.

Chapter 4, Maximizing Azure Security Benefits for Your Organization, covers best practices for securing workloads on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel as a tool for intelligent security analytics, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Identity, Endpoint, and Cloud Apps, each of which can help identify suspicious activity and prevent advanced attacks.

Chapter 5, Automation and Governance in Azure, explains the importance of automation and governance, discussing the two native Microsoft Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks: Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and Bicep. Governance is a critical aspect of managing resources on Azure, and the tools and services available to facilitate this are also covered.

Chapter 6, Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Savings in Azure, discusses the impact of cost optimization in the cloud, and its place as one of the five pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. It goes on to explain the different ways that Azure Advisor can help organizations optimize Azure resources based on usage patterns, as part of a comprehensive cost optimization strategy.

Chapter 7, Next Steps, summarizes the book and delivers guidance for further action.

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