You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

Deployment models

Deployment models in Azure are classified based on the level of management or control. It's up to the user to select which level of management or control they prefer; either they can go for complete control by using services such as Virtual Machines, or they can use managed services where things will be managed by Azure for them.

There are two deployment models for deploying databases on Azure:

Databases on Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS)
Databases hosted as managed services (PaaS)

We will now try to understand the difference between deployment on Azure Virtual Machines and managed instances. Let's start with Virtual Machines.

Databases on Azure Virtual Machines

Azure provides multiple stock keeping units (SKUs) for virtual machines. There are high-compute, high-throughput (IOPS) machines that are also available along with general-use virtual machines. Instead of hosting a SQL Server, MySQL, or any other database...