Chapter 2 When to Use IaaS: Cost and Options

Now that you’re familiar with the concepts of the public cloud and the various types of “as-a-Service,” this chapter will focus on helping you understand the true value of leveraging the public cloud. Here you will learn how to evaluate the associated costs and the types of workloads supported in Azure.

The details of how Azure provides its services also will be covered in order to help you make architectural decisions when designing services and planning for disaster recovery.

In this chapter, you will learn to

  • Understand all the cost elements related to hosting services
  • Identify workloads that can run in Azure IaaS
  • Describe how Microsoft Azure infrastructure provides services

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