Chapter 3: Core Azure Architectural Components
In Chapter 2, Benefits of Cloud Computing, you learned the skills to identify the cloud computing benefits, describe the consumption-based model, and identify the differences between capital expenditure and operational expenditure.
This chapter will outline the core architectural components from both a physical and a logical perspective.
From the physical component perspective, we'll look at the data centers that host the cloud computing resources, the global networks connecting them and connecting users to their resources, the global regions that provide the cloud platform resources, and the availability of these resources.
From the logical component perspective, we'll look at all aspects of resource management. Starting with Azure subscriptions, which act as both a mechanism and a boundary for billing and access management, we'll also cover management groups. Next, we'll cover Azure Resource Manager (ARM...
