October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
45 pages
50m
English
Content preview from Microsoft Azure IaaS Solutions
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform featuring powerful on-demand infrastructure and solutions for building and deploying applications workloads as well as a wide variety of IT and application services. You can use Azure as a public cloud provider and as a hybrid extension to existing on-premises infrastructure. Organizations that use Microsoft solutions on-premises are able to easily extend their infrastructure and operational processes to Azure.
With the growing popularity of Azure, today’s systems administrators need to acquire and strengthen their skills on this fast-growing public cloud platform. In this chapter we explore the Azure public cloud platform with a focus on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features. We cover general architectural features of the Azure cloud including geographic regions, availability zones, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) attached to the core Azure IaaS infrastructure.
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Regions, Availability Zones, Availability Sets, and Uptime SLAs
The Azure cloud environment is segmented logically and physically to provide the following:
- Geographic availability
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Low-latency access to geographic locations for more rapid application and service access
- Geographic resiliency
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Multiple points of presence for distributing applications, workloads, and services to allow for high availability
Core services are available ...
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