Microsoft Azure Cloud Foundation Services
In the first two parts of the book, we dove into AWS and GCP and explored and provisioned the cloud services. We have now reached the third part of the book, which is about the Microsoft Azure cloud. In this part, we will focus on two things:
- Comparing the three clouds as we introduce the Azure cloud
- Expanding to look at more advanced Azure cloud concepts and integrations, based on the cloud discussions we have covered so far
In this chapter, we will explore Azure’s foundation services. We will cover the following contents:
- Understanding the Azure resource hierarchy, by comparing cloud resource hierarchies for AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Learning about Azure compute services by comparing VM instances, containers, and serverless services for the three cloud platforms
- Learning about Azure storage services by comparing object, file, block, and archive storage for the three cloud platforms
- Practicing Azure...