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Azure for Architects

You're reading from Azure for Architects Implementing cloud design, DevOps, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788397391

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Azure Design Patterns

3. Designing High Availability

4. Implementing Scalability

5. Cloud Security

6. Designing IoT Solutions

7. Designing and Implementing Data Solutions

8. Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions

9. Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

10. DevOps on Azure

11. Cost Management

12. Monitoring and Auditing

Storage

Azure provides durable, highly available, and scalable storage solutions through storage services.

Storage is used for persisting data for long-term needs. Azure storage is available through the internet from almost every programming language.

Storage categories

Storage has two categories of storage accounts:

A standard storage performance tier that allows you to store tables, queues, files, blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks.
A premium storage performance tier supporting Azure virtual machine disks at the time of writing. Premium storage provides higher performance and IOPS compared to standard general storage. Premium storage is currently available as data disks for virtual machines are backed up by SSD's.

Storage types

Azure provides four types of general storage services as shown in the following diagram:

Blob storage: This type of storage is best suitable for unstructured data such as documents, images, and other kinds of files. Blob storage can be hot or cold. Hot means that content...

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