When working as an Azure administrator, you often have to understand and even implement multiple policies that ensure your applications are available in case of an outage and can quickly recover from a disaster. This chapter focuses on reviewing monitoring solutions and backup plans for multiple services and using components such as Azure Front Door to manage your infrastructure globally and from a single point.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Monitoring Azure VMs
- Monitoring Azure Storage services
- Monitoring Azure App Service
- Implementing Azure SQL backup
- Implementing Azure Storage backup
- Implementing Availability Zones for VMs and high availability
- Monitoring and managing global routing for web traffic with Azure Front Door
- Designing backup plans for VMs
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