Microsoft Azure 101
Microsoft has many solutions in the public cloud that are actually enabled through a number of different cloud services, of which Microsoft Azure is just one. There are others, such as Office 365 and Dynamics 365, and then sovereign Azure clouds, such as U.S. Government, China, and Germany. The focus of this book is the Azure-related clouds, but all these different clouds are physically hosted on a core set of capacity (think compute) and network resources.
Microsoft Datacenters and Regions
While “the cloud” seems mysterious and magical and that things can just run there, the reality is that workloads have to run on servers, data has to be stored on storage, and networks need to connect resources. This can all be thought of as capacity. Microsoft has a Cloud Operations + Innovation team that architects and operates the Microsoft datacenters that the various cloud services, including Azure, run on.
The Servers
It all starts with the servers themselves...
