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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure Implement, monitor, and manage important Azure services and components including IaaS and PaaS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134964
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mustafa Toroman Mustafa Toroman
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Preface 1. Key Concepts of Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Azure Networking - Foundation of Azure IaaS 3. Infrastructure as a Service - the First Layer of Cloud Computing 4. Azure App Service - Hosting Web Applications without a Server 5. The Azure Data Platform 6. Azure Storage, Backup, and Site Recovery - Moving your Data to Azure 7. Hybrid Cloud with Azure - Extending Local Workloads to the Cloud 8. Azure Active Directory - Identity in the Cloud 9. Azure Security and Administration 10. Best Practices 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Azure Active Directory

AAD is a cloud-based directory and identity management service that provides application access management and identity protection. It's often referred to as IaaS.

We already mentioned this, but let's review it anyway. AAD is at the top level of the Azure management chain and it's directly tied to the tenant. Under the tenant, we can have multiple subscriptions, under subscriptions multiple resource groups, and under resource groups multiple resources.

A single account can have access to multiple tenants but each tenant is isolated. When a user signs in, the default directory and tenant is selected. Only resources that are under subscriptions under that tenant are available. In order to manage resources in another tenant, we must switch the directory.

AAD comes in four tiers:

  • Azure Active Directory Free
  • Azure Active Directory Basic
  • Azure...
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