Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

Foreword

I've been alive for more than 40 years, and I can tell you that we are lucky to live in these technologically exciting times. In a plastic or magnesium alloy, school notebook-sized box, weighing less than a bottle of juice, we have more portable power than a secret government data center would have had a few decades ago. We can run multiple operating systems on one computer at once, connect to a zillion devices wirelessly in an instant, and send messages and stream videos in a blink of an eye. Optical cables and even the air around us gives us access to an unfathomable amount of worldwide information and resources.

Around our wrists today, we wear millions of times more computing power and data storage than would have been in a computer ...