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Pranab Mazumdar, Sourabh Agarwal and Amit Banerjee, Pro SQL Server on Microsoft Azure , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2083-2_2

2. Azure Architecture

Pranab Mazumdar, Sourabh Agarwal1 and Amit Banerjee1

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Today cloud computing has matured and has clear demarcations between the different classes of service—platform, software, and infrastructure. Microsoft offers services in all three categories. But before we jump into them, let us first understand the nuances involved in cloud services. In this chapter, we will understand how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) works. Think of IaaS as a pizza where your favorite pizza vendor provides the frozen pizza and you need to manage the ...

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