Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing the Cloud

© Julian Soh, Marshall Copeland, Anthony Puca, and Micheleen Harris 2020

J. Soh et al.Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5958-0_20

20. Developing and Deploying Azure-based Applications

Julian Soh¹  , Marshall Copeland², Anthony Puca³ and Micheleen Harris¹

(1)

Washington, WA, USA

(2)

Texas, TX, USA

(3)

Colorado, CO, USA

 

Introduction

Azure is often referred to as one of only a few hypercloud offerings today. The term hypercloud indicates that it has a worldwide footprint, access to almost limitless resources (primarily compute, memory, and storage), and all of it on-demand and deployable within minutes.

This core characteristic of Azure brings new capabilities to developers because it allows applications to be more robust and resilient since ...