Chapter 1
The Cloud and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
This chapter focuses on changes that are impacting every organization’s thinking regarding infrastructure, datacenters, and ways to offer services. “As a Service” offerings—both on premises and hosted by partners, and accessed over the Internet in the form of the public cloud—present new opportunities for organizations.
Microsoft’s solution for many public cloud services is its Azure service, which offers hundreds of capabilities that are constantly being updated. This chapter will provide an overview of the Microsoft Azure solution stack before examining various types of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and how Azure services can be procured.
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Articulate the different types of “as a Service.”
- Identify key scenarios where the public cloud provides the most optimal service.
- Understand how to get started consuming Microsoft Azure services...
