Approaches for Azure adoption

As you consider Azure adoption for your cloud infrastructure strategy, you can choose from different ways to deploy cloud services—public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multiple clouds, and at the edge of networks. Deciding between these computing environments can depend on a variety of factors.

Let's take a look at each of these approaches.

Public cloud

The most common type of cloud computing service is a public cloud, which is provided by third-party cloud providers and delivered over the public internet. The resources in these public cloud environments are owned and managed by the underlying cloud provider, which in the case of Azure is Microsoft. In public clouds, resources are shared with other organizations or cloud tenants; these can include services such as email, CRM, VMs, and databases.

Some common public cloud use cases involve organizations who want to expose their public workloads, such as public websites or mobile...