Learning Microsoft Azure

Chapter 3. Microsoft Azure Cloud Compute Services

Compute services, networking, and storage are the essentials of any public cloud. Azure compute helps customers build and host application workloads of various scales and natures. It works with your current development stack or helps migrate it to containers or serverless and adopts the best development practices.

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Previously, we learned about Microsoft Azure as a cloud provider and reviewed Azure’s different core services, which gave us a better understanding of each cloud service.

In this chapter, we dig deeper into one core services category in Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure compute, which helps you and your organization build cloud solutions using compute services, which will be utilized in existing development projects regardless of whether your applications are for migration, containerization, or modernization.

Azure Compute for Developing Fully Managed Systems

Azure provides computing services on-demand globally and with high availability. Azure compute is the category name for cloud-based computing services in Azure, and it offers on-demand computing resources such as high-capacity virtual disks, memory, networking, processors, and robust virtual operating systems. They are available on a pay-as-you-go basis or with other pricing models that can be set up and created quickly. The ability to provision compute resources with pricing ...