Azure scalability

In this section, we will see features and capabilities provided by Azure to make applications highly available. Before we get into the architecture and configuration details, it is important to understand Azure High Availability related concepts.

Concepts

The fundamental constructs provided by Azure to attain High Availability is through:

• Scaling
• Scaling up and down
• Scaling out and in
• Auto scaling
• Rolling updates

Scaling

Scaling refers to the transformation that either increases or decreases the units of resources used to serve requests from users....