Chapter 3

Azure

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting acquainted with Azure

Bullet Signing up for an Azure account

Bullet Creating a virtual machine in Azure

Bullet Managing an Azure virtual machine

Bullet Connecting to an Azure virtual machine

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service that provides a ton of alternatives for virtualizing your IT infrastructure in the cloud. Azure has been around since 2010 and is now one of the most robust platforms for building IT in the cloud.

Azure provides three basic types of cloud services:

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Cloud-hosted versions of the most basic types of virtual infrastructure components, including virtual machines (VMs), virtual disk storage, and virtual networks. With IaaS, Microsoft provides the physical hardware needed to run basic Hyper-V components.
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS): A step up from IaaS, PaaS provides cloud-based platforms on which you can run applications. For example, you can deploy web-based ASP.NET applications to Azure and let Microsoft ...

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