Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Microsoft Azure

You can sign up for the Azure cloud on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/. Like AWS, Azure offers multiple regions and availability zones in which you can run your services. Also, most of the Azure core services work similar to AWS, although they often are named differently:

• The service managing virtual machines (EC2 in AWS terms) is called just that, virtual machines. When creating a virtual machine, you will need to select an image (both Linux and Windows images are supported), provide an SSH public key, and choose a machine size. Other core concepts are named similarly. You can configure network access rules using Network Security Groups, loadbalance traffic using Azure Load Balancers (named Elastic Load Balancer ...