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Shijimol Ambi KarthikeyanPractical Microsoft Azure IaaShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3763-2_6

6. Design for High Availability in Azure

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan1 
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Infrastructure is the backbone of services offered by organizations. Designing environments for high availability from the ground up to avoid single point of failures is particularly important. The end goal is to ensure minimal interruption to the user in the event of a platform, VM, or service failure. When the infrastructure is hosted in Microsoft Azure, the design should leverage platform-level features and services whenever possible, and use third-party tools if applicable. This chapter focuses on the features and ...

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