Azure for Architects

IaaS scalability

There are users who want to have complete control over the base infrastructure, platform, and application. They prefer to consume IaaS solutions compared to PaaS solutions. For such customers, when they create virtual machines they are also responsible for capacity sizing and scaling. There is no out-of-the-box configuring for manual or auto-scaling of virtual machines. These customers will have to write their own automation scripts, triggers, and rules to achieve auto scaling. With virtual machines comes the responsibility to maintain them as well. Patching, updates, and upgrades of virtual machines is the responsibility of owners. Architects should think about both planned as well as unplanned maintenance. How these virtual ...