Chapter 16Designing and implementing hybrid and Azure database infrastructure

In this chapter, we examine the options for designing a database infrastructure where some or all your data is hosted in a public cloud, specifically the Microsoft Azure cloud. The chapter begins with an overview of cloud and Azure concepts. We then discuss the considerations for deploying SQL Server-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), or in a hybrid fashion. We end the chapter with a cursory listing of some non-SQL Server data platform services in Azure.

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